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Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good when you wrote it, it's fantastic when it comes out of their mouth.

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There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered 'wrong' in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn't take it as wrong.

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Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: August 9th, 1974

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