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" Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show. "

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" When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn't prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren't a part of the narrative that television told me was a 'working relationship.' "

" I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why. He was a man who possibly did some really bad things, and he should be punished beyond a doubt. But that show, and the impact it had not just on black culture, but culture, was amazing. "

" The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it. "

" At my core, I'm shy. "

" It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy. "

" No one's pro-police brutality. "

" My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name. "

" I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor. "

" When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure. "

" When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are. "

" Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything. "

" I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I have five kids, and there are five totally different people in my house. "

" My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid. "

" For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up. "

" ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. "

" I love Donald Glover. "

" And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents - we're used to things not going our way. "

" Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times. "

" I love Meryl Streep. "

" I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was. "

" I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders. "

" The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects. "

" If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn't bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it's like, 'See what you guys do?' and that type of thing. "

" We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things. "

" I will be so happy when 'diversity' is not a word. "

" You can have good times with anyone, but it's really different and much more interesting when you look at how you get through the bad times with someone. "

" Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now, comedy has gotten to this quirky, nonsensical place, which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying. "

" I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way. "

" There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered 'wrong' in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn't take it as wrong. "

" I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships. "