Friend Quote by Kenya Barris

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

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

— Kenya Barris

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

— Kenya Barris

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

— Kenya Barris

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

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

— Kenya Barris

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

— Kenya Barris

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

— Kenya Barris

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

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

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

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