I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
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… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
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… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I dug deep, and I found that there were people who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump - because they… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
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.… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live… — Kenya Barris Copy Share
We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved. — Kenya Barris Copy Share
I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor. — Kenya Barris Copy Share
And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents… — Kenya Barris Copy Share
For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up. — Kenya Barris Copy Share
I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I… — Kenya Barris Copy Share
The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column… — Kenya Barris Copy Share
My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like,… — Kenya Barris Copy Share
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… — Kenya Barris Copy Share
ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. — Kenya Barris Copy Share
As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly. — Kenya Barris Copy Share
Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice. — Kenya Barris Copy Share
