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" Knowing what I don't know helps me every day. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Knowing
Know
Every Day
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" I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength. "
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" The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character. "
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" I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK. "
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" Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles. "
Courtney A. Kemp
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" Comedians are on the road so much that when they're just getting to act and sit in one place, they're really grateful and just ready. "
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" There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry. "
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" I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances, even though he has almost endless access to money and guns. "
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" Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff. "
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" 50 Cent is a brilliant marketer. "
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50 Cent
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" Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me. "
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" I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I wrote for 'Vibe.' I did music reviews. I wrote for 'Time Out.' I was desperate to get into 'Entertainment Weekly' or 'New York Magazine.' Like, desperate. "
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New
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" You don't keep your job if you don't make a great show. "
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Your
You
Show
" I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites. "
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Those
Want
Lying
" In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe. "
Courtney A. Kemp
College
Listening
Theatre
" When I watch television, I want to be surprised. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Television
Want
Surprised
" The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Responsibility
Character
Good
" When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Imagination
Me
Girl
" The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Me
Family
Black
" We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people. "
Courtney A. Kemp
White
Latino
Mean
" If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Time
Enthusiasm
Job
" I love 'Archer.' That's one of the best-written shows out there. "
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Love
Out
I Love
" Wherever I go, stuff accumulates. "
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Go
Wherever
Stuff
" God is in control of everything. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Control
Everything
God
" I'm seeing more and more people of color do what I do as showrunners, and that's so great. I would love to get to the point where we don't have to talk about it anymore. "
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Love
Seeing
People
" My dad was born with no money. "
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Born
Money
Dad
" Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp. "
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Crazy
People
Over
" There's always going to be a part of me that wants an Emmy. Truthfully, I'm probably more motivated by people being entertained. I'm more motivated by people being like, 'Oh snap! Did you see that?' "
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People
More
Me
" I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me. "
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People
I Can
Want
" 'Power' would never have gotten on the air if the folks at Starz weren't saying to themselves, 'This is an underserved audience.' It was a financial decision, not a benevolent decision based on a need to change the industry. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Saying
Change
Decision
" I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all different races, all together - like a New York City subway. "
Courtney A. Kemp
I Am
Diversity
Together