81 Quotes by Kenya Barris

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

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

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

Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.

'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home.

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.

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

My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies. We weren't rich, but we were better off than I was growing up. And I looked around, and I was like, 'Who are these people?' It was the opposite of what I remembered growing up.

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