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'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 of the series.

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 not about to happen - that is an amazing amount of pressure to have.

After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it was this really, really difficult time for me.

You can have good times with anyone, but it's really different and much more interesting when you look at how you get through the bad times with someone.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and worst of those moments, you come together, and you look for your tribe.

My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.

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

I want to make sure I don't leave any money for my kids, so I'm going to spend it all on clothes.

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

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

The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects.

The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

At my core, I'm shy.

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

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

My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew.

I'm doing another pilot about a black Democratic pundit who's married to a white Republican pundit. And the purpose of me wanting to do that show - and ABC sort of supported me in the way they did - is because I feel like, you know, the political system is like an old married couple.

I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like.

I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.

I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.

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