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At my core, I'm shy.
I love Meryl Streep.
I love Donald Glover.
Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.
There's never really been a true apology for slavery.
I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.'
I want to start really developing more on the film side.
I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.
Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times.
I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.
Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.
For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.
As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.
Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.
At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.
The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.
I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.
Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.
I don't know Channing Dungey well, but we have talked several times, and she seems like an amazing executive.
When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences.
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.
Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show.
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.
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.
As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.
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.
I really want to do what 'Veep' did. 'Veep,' in a very comical way, gave us a look inside the political machine, but I want to do it for the average American family.
I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.
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.
What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.
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.
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.
The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed by the fact that he was the first black president.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.