Age Quote by Lena Waithe

'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud…

— Kenya Barris

I was raised in a beautiful Black two-parent family that has given me amazing morals to go out to make a better life for…

— Eva Marcille

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

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

— Nikki Giovanni

I grew up watching shows like 'Martin' and 'Fresh Prince' and 'Moesha,' and I was inspired by all these shows. When I was growing…

— Jermaine Fowler

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

I think that just because the show is titled 'Awkward Black Girl' and it is a predominantly black cast doesn't mean that you shouldn't…

— Issa Rae

I know it's 'Dear White People,' and you can imprint all kinds of concessions about what the show might be about on the title,…

— Justin Simien

I saw the general-market world, the white world. I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an…

— Don Cornelius

I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Going to college was really affirming for me, meeting other people like me, other mixed people who had mixed life experience. And that's when…

— Myha'la

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe