I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame. — Courtney A. Kemp 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 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
When you write a show, every character is you to some extent. — Courtney A. Kemp Character Copy Share Image
When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit. — Courtney A. Kemp 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 Copy Share Image
If I weren't a showrunner, I'd be a much more accomplished mother; if I were not a mother, I would be a… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very… — Courtney A. Kemp Class Copy Share Image
Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Any underrepresented audience loves to see themselves on TV, but what's more important is that we're writing about universal themes - good… — Courtney A. Kemp Change Copy Share Image
Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a… — Courtney A. Kemp Boss Copy Share Image
Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or… — Courtney A. Kemp Fitness 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 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
It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?'… — Courtney A. Kemp 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 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
The Shawshank Redemption' isn't a movie about a black guy and a white guy who become friends - it's a movie about… — Courtney A. Kemp Emotions 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
If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other. — Courtney A. Kemp 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 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 love 'Archer.' That's one of the best-written shows out there. — Courtney A. Kemp Archer Copy Share Image
I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all… — Courtney A. Kemp City Copy Share Image
As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
What I'm about to say won't be popular, but it's true: If being a television showrunner is the job you want, and… — Courtney A. Kemp Children Copy Share Image
When I first arrived in Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to try to break into television, I couldn't believe how… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of… — Courtney A. Kemp Books Copy Share Image
Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
