I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
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
After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times… — 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