Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air. — Courtney A. Kemp Air Copy Share Image
I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up. — Courtney A. Kemp About Copy Share Image
If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other. — Courtney A. Kemp About Copy Share Image
The show runner's the boss until the network shows up. And then they're the boss, because it's their money. — Courtney A. Kemp Boss Copy Share Image
I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control. — Courtney A. Kemp About Copy Share Image
Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other. — Courtney A. Kemp Great Copy Share Image
I love 'Archer.' That's one of the best-written shows out there. — Courtney A. Kemp Archer Copy Share Image
When you write a show, every character is you to some extent. — Courtney A. Kemp Character Copy Share Image
When we started on 'Power,' I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican, Nuyorican, Mexican, etc. I wanted the… — Courtney A. Kemp Dialects Copy Share Image
There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create… — Courtney A. Kemp Alchemy Copy Share Image
If you look at the back pages of 'New York Times Magazine,' and they talk about these 6.5-million-dollar condos with a great… — Courtney A. Kemp Great Copy Share Image
I am a black woman, and I'm proud of that, but as a showrunner, I want to think about what makes me… — Courtney A. Kemp I am Copy Share Image
Show-running is a very difficult job that includes so many responsibilities; I'm working with the actors, working with directors, writing, making decisions… — Courtney A. Kemp Actor Copy Share Image
Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with… — Courtney A. Kemp Crazy Copy Share Image
'Power' would never have gotten on the air if the folks at Starz weren't saying to themselves, 'This is an underserved audience.'… — Courtney A. Kemp Air Copy Share Image
I don't write scenes where one person is right and one person is wrong. It's very much by design that everyone has… — Courtney A. Kemp Audience Copy Share Image
The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it… — Courtney A. Kemp Black people Copy Share Image
I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I… — Courtney A. Kemp Entertainment Copy Share Image
My experience as a black woman in the industry is simply that often I was the only one in the room. Often… — Courtney A. Kemp Black Copy Share Image
Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences… — Courtney A. Kemp Goals Copy Share Image
My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents… — Courtney A. Kemp Being Copy Share Image
I remember watching episodes of 'The Sopranos' and being filled with dread knowing what was coming or anticipating what was coming. I… — Courtney A. Kemp Bad Copy Share Image
In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the… — Courtney A. Kemp Listening Copy Share Image
There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain… — Courtney A. Kemp Practice Copy Share Image
When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit. — Courtney A. Kemp Always Copy Share Image
The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. — Courtney A. Kemp Black Copy Share Image
Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff. — Courtney A. Kemp Being Copy Share Image
There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry. — Courtney A. Kemp Hip hop Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism. — Courtney A. Kemp Going Copy Share Image
Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me. — Courtney A. Kemp Chance Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things. — Courtney A. Kemp Always Copy Share Image
I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out. — Courtney A. Kemp Always Copy Share Image
There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist. — Courtney A. Kemp Idea Copy Share Image
