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.’ Kenya Barris Read Quote
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. Kenya Barris Read Quote
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. Kenya Barris Read Quote
I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships. Kenya Barris Read Quote
I’m doing another pilot about a black Democratic pundit who’s married to a white Republican pundit. And the purpose of me wanting to do that show – and ABC sort of supported me in the way they did – is because I feel like, you know, the political system is like an old married couple. Kenya Barris Read Quote
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. Kenya Barris Read Quote
I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in ‘The Cosby Show.’ The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it. Kenya Barris Read Quote
