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" The story always leads you where it's supposed to go. "
Courtney A. Kemp
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" 'Power' would never have gotten on the air if the folks at Starz weren't saying to themselves, 'This is an underserved audience.' It was a financial decision, not a benevolent decision based on a need to change the industry. "
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Saying
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Decision
" Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff. "
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Because
Great
Writer
" I'm seeing more and more people of color do what I do as showrunners, and that's so great. I would love to get to the point where we don't have to talk about it anymore. "
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Love
Seeing
People
" Wherever I go, stuff accumulates. "
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Go
Wherever
Stuff
" My experience as a black woman in the industry is simply that often I was the only one in the room. Often I would be the only woman and the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several women but the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several people of color, but the only woman. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Women
Experience
People
" The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Me
Family
Black
" When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Imagination
Me
Girl
" I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Complicated
Experience
Job
" 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?' "
Courtney A. Kemp
Like
Difficult
Job
" I had very much wanted to be the very first black female editor-in-chief of 'Vogue.' Barring that, I wanted to work at 'Entertainment Weekly.' "
Courtney A. Kemp
Entertainment
Work
Black
" 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?' "
Courtney A. Kemp
People
More
Me
" When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Power
True
You
" I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances, even though he has almost endless access to money and guns. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Ghost
Way
Power
" I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it. "
Courtney A. Kemp
I Can
Think
Story
" Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Day
Taking
Power
" The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Women
Character
Play
" 50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It's just for the show. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Social Media
Social
Show
" It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Black
Good
Great
" I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Magazine
Thought
Journalism
" I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Control
Prayer
I Can
" Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Thrive
Great
Partnerships
" When I watch television, I want to be surprised. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Television
Want
Surprised
" When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Me
Power
Always
" My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Sister
Dance
Streets
" If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Work
Boss
Way
" I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Going
Color
White
" I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped me find my voice. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Place
Me
Finding
" It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Animal
Other
Ridiculous
" Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Time
Black
Growing Up
" 50 Cent and I really started to bond over our love for music. The first conversations we had were about Curtis Mayfield. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Music
Over
Started