99 Quotes by Courtney A. Kemp

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

You don't keep your job if you don't make a great show.

As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers.

Comedians are on the road so much that when they're just getting to act and sit in one place, they're really grateful and just ready.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

If you look at the back pages of 'New York Times Magazine,' and they talk about these 6.5-million-dollar condos with a great view, like you're going to pay for a great view. Well, the top floor of the projects have a great view, too.

Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood.

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic.

Show-running is a very difficult job that includes so many responsibilities; I'm working with the actors, working with directors, writing, making decisions like, 'What fabric is that sofa gonna be?'