Courtney A. Kemp

My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing. ”

My dad was born with no money. ”

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other. ”

Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines. ”

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky. ”

There's always going to be a part of me that wants an Emmy. Truthfully, I'm probably more motivated by people being entertained. I'm more motivated by people being like, 'Oh snap! Did you see that?' ”

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions. ”

My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents grew up in segregation, and they both lived in all-black neighborhoods and grew up with large black families. I didn't have any of that, and I didn't understand feeling so differently and being treated so differently. ”

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff. ”

Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp. ”