My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
Around me, there’s always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
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. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can’t control. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It’s just for the show. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
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. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It’s not just writing. It’s also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
I don’t want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
When I first arrived in Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to try to break into television, I couldn’t believe how segregated it was – how many neighborhoods were nearly all-white or all-black or -Asian or -Latino. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
