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" 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. "
Kenya Barris
Change
Trying
Things
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Wrong
Country
Never
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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House
" 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. "
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Live
" Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids. "
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Regret
" After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it was this really, really difficult time for me. "
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Me
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Back
" You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over. "
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Control
Start
" Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C. "
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Who
Goes
" When you're in the middle of it, when you're a kid growing up, you don't think, 'This is my first heartbreak.' You just think, 'My heart is broken.' But then as a parent, you look back, and you see your child go through his or her first heartbreak, and you're realizing, 'Oh my God, this is her first heartbreak.' "
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Think
God
Broken
" Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times. "
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Good
Good Times
Sometimes
" I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular. "
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I Am What I Am
Writer
Because
" I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it. "
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Money
Like
Feel
" I love Donald Glover. "
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Donald
I Love
Love
" I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor. "
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Humor
Things
Did
" I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like. "
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Day
Family
World
" I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters. "
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Me
Love
Writing
" When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure. "
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Painting
Walk
You
" My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew. "
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First
You
Tell
" I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive. "
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People
Think
You
" I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships. "
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Hurt
Believe
Gender
" No one's pro-police brutality. "
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Brutality
" I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent. "
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Me
Thought
Best
" I hear people say, 'I'm not a role model' all the time, and it's like, 'Well, of course you're not!' It doesn't mean that people aren't going to look at you as one, though. "
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People
Role Model
Time
" I want to make sure I don't leave any money for my kids, so I'm going to spend it all on clothes. "
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Clothes
Money
Leave
" 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. "
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Place
Style
Say
" Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice. "
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Find
Tell
Story
" 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. "
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Race
White
Bad
" At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money. "
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Friends
More
Money
" Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid. "
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Kid
You
Be Happy
" I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.' "
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Grew
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