Black Quotes by Kenya Barris

9 Black quotes by Kenya Barris

Kenya Barris offers nine concise, culturally aware observations on Black, reflecting the wit and insight that shape his television work. The collection reads like a quick, engaging script of ideas.

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My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.

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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…

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I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I…

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The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways…

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I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that…

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'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm…

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My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I…

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And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and…

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I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have…

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I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live…

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We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

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I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

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I want to start really developing more on the film side.

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And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents…

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There's never really been a true apology for slavery.

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I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.

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For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.

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I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I…

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The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column…

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My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like,…

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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…

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ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

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As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

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Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

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