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. Kenya Barris Read Quote
There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There’s no criminality to it. So, it was just like, ‘It’s over,’ and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered ‘wrong’ in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn’t take it as wrong. Kenya Barris Read Quote
Laurence Fishburne – he’s a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything. Kenya Barris Read Quote
I dug deep, and I found that there were people who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump – because they saw what they believed was going to be hope and change, and under Obama, their particular lives did not change. Kenya Barris Read Quote
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. Kenya Barris Read Quote
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. Kenya Barris Read Quote
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. Kenya Barris Read Quote
At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money. Kenya Barris Read Quote
