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• ‟ As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

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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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• ‟ I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

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• ‟ I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters.

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• ‟ I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way.

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• ‟ I dug deep, and I found that there were people who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump - because they saw what they believed was going to be hope and change, and under Obama, their particular lives did not change.

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