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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.

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Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: August 9th, 1974

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