For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go… — 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
You can have good times with anyone, but it's really different and much more interesting when you look at how you get… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
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… — 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 really want to do what 'Veep' did. 'Veep,' in a very comical way, gave us a look inside the political machine,… — 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
