What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
'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… — 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 Image
We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
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 Image
For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up. — 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 it. I… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
