For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.' — Kenya Barris Hollywood Copy Share Image
It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy. — Kenya Barris Everybody Copy Share Image
I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it. — Kenya Barris Come Copy Share Image
I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships. — Kenya Barris Believe Copy Share Image
Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything. — Kenya Barris Actor Copy Share Image
We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved. — Kenya Barris Actually Copy Share Image
Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences. — Kenya Barris Differences Copy Share Image
When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying… — Kenya Barris Accomplishment 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 Black Copy Share Image
Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid. — Kenya Barris Be happy Copy Share Image
At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money. — Kenya Barris Burning Copy Share Image
I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until… — Kenya Barris Believe 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… — Kenya Barris American 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 Best 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 Black 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 Creative person 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 Art Copy Share Image
My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies.… — Kenya Barris Better 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… — Kenya Barris Different Copy Share Image
The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the… — Kenya Barris Darkest Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I… — Kenya Barris Amazing Copy Share Image
My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid. — Kenya Barris Being Copy Share Image
Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times. — Kenya Barris Good Copy Share Image
The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it. — Kenya Barris Culture Copy Share Image
For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up. — Kenya Barris Big Copy Share Image
Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C. — Kenya Barris Characters 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 Back Copy Share Image
I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders. — Kenya Barris American Copy Share Image
As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly. — Kenya Barris Dead 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 Bad Copy Share Image
