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

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" There's never really been a true apology for slavery. "

" Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C. "

" 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. "

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

" Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice. "

" I love Donald Glover. "

" To me, the Peabody was as big if not bigger than any award, but I do understand an Emmy Award-winning show has a different buzz when it comes to start talking about renewals and things like that. There's a professional something to it that matters. "

" No one's pro-police brutality. "

" As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in. "

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

" 'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home. "

" Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or not about to happen - that is an amazing amount of pressure to have. "

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

" I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it. "

" I've been on predominantly 'white' shows before, and I had also been on predominantly 'black' shows. I would complain that when I was on a white show, they would only hire me because there was a black character or they needed a black voice. But then I would be mad if they went and hired a white dude in my position. "

" 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. "

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

" No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. "

" Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and worst of those moments, you come together, and you look for your tribe. "

" I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it. "

" 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. "

" Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid. "

" 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. "

" 'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series. "

" I love Meryl Streep. "

" Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good when you wrote it, it's fantastic when it comes out of their mouth. "

" Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies. We weren't rich, but we were better off than I was growing up. And I looked around, and I was like, 'Who are these people?' It was the opposite of what I remembered growing up. "