Quotes from Courtney A. Kemp

I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.

50 Cent and I really started to bond over our love for music. The first conversations we had were about Curtis Mayfield.

I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all different races, all together - like a New York City subway.

Any underrepresented audience loves to see themselves on TV, but what's more important is that we're writing about universal themes - good versus evil, can you change yourself? These themes resonate for everyone.

There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

The story always leads you where it's supposed to go.

When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood.