Producer

The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects.

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.

We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

I love Donald Glover.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

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

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

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.

Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.

There's never really been a true apology for slavery.

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.

I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.'

I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I have five kids, and there are five totally different people in my house.

For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go on and do other things while, at the same time, she made sure she kept her stamp on those things and grew her business.

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.

It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed by the fact that he was the first black president.

For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.

I hear people say, 'I'm not a role model' all the time, and it's like, 'Well, of course you're not!' It doesn't mean that people aren't going to look at you as one, though.