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" There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create an alchemy of a failure. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Create
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Things
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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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" 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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" There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I was sure that I didn't know everything. People who work with me will tell you I don't think I know everything. I watch people sink around me thinking that they knew everything. "
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" Wherever I go, stuff accumulates. "
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" The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. "
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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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" It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm. "
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" My dad was born with no money. "
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" If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time. "
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" As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers. "
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Feel
Woman
" If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other. "
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" I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very isolated. I felt different from everybody else. "
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Race
Up
" Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air. "
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Television
Show
" I am a black woman, and I'm proud of that, but as a showrunner, I want to think about what makes me unique beyond my race. "
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Think
Black
I Am
" I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that. "
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Cool
Thought
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" In 2011, when my father passed away - I had my daughter first; I had her on January 24, and I had a seizure during the delivery. I lived through that, and five weeks later, my father died suddenly of a heart attack, and I lived through that. And then my daughter had surgery, and I lived through that. "
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Father
Her
Attack
" Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me. "
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Day
Taking
Power
" If I weren't a showrunner, I'd be a much more accomplished mother; if I were not a mother, I would be a much more accomplished showrunner. I have to be okay with getting a B in both. "
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Accomplished
Okay
Mother
" I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid. "
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Wanted
" 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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Seeing
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" It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal. "
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Other
Ridiculous
" I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it. "
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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. "
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" When people watch 'Power' and they find out the showrunner is black, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that I am a woman and my background is not particularly urban. "
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" There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true. "
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Black
You
Power
" I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame. "
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" Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff. "
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" My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing. "
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" I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things. "
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