Kenya Barris

No one's pro-police brutality.

— Kenya Barris

At my core, I'm shy.

— Kenya Barris

I love Meryl Streep.

— Kenya Barris

I love Donald Glover.

— Kenya Barris

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

— Kenya Barris

For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.'

— Kenya Barris

I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.'

— Kenya Barris

I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.

— Kenya Barris

I will be so happy when 'diversity' is not a word.

— Kenya Barris

It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

— Kenya Barris

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

— Kenya Barris

Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times.

— Kenya Barris

We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

— Kenya Barris

I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships.

— Kenya Barris

Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.

— Kenya Barris

Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences.

— Kenya Barris

When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying…

— Kenya Barris

For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.

— Kenya Barris

At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.

— Kenya Barris

Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.

— Kenya Barris

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

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

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

My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies.…

— Kenya Barris

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

The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life…

— Kenya Barris

Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and…

— Kenya Barris

When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times…

— Kenya Barris

The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the…

— Kenya Barris

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

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

— Kenya Barris

There's never really been a true apology for slavery.

— Kenya Barris

My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.

— Kenya Barris

'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

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

— Kenya Barris

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

— Kenya Barris

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

— Kenya Barris

Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.

— Kenya Barris

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

I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

— Kenya Barris