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Did not give me a show runner. they let me write my show and run my show. - whats this about, man? - dont fucking play stupid. you know what this is about. its payback time. - there is the equation of 50 being someone who lived the life. so, you already set up the streets validating it first and foremost. the streets will tell you, if something is righteous. authenticity is everything. i mean, its why we do this. - my whole career, ive been answering questions like, "well, would they really? is ...

- just to get that chance to prove yes, we deserve to be here. i think eric monte and mike evans proved that. - dy-no-mite! (upbeat funky music) (audience laughs) dy-no-mite. i know might i did a little tiny dynamite just in rehearsal. john rich, our director, says, "i love that dy-no-mite thing. heres how you do it. dy-no-mite!" i said, "john, please, people will never go for this." - then jimmy walkers character takes over, and instead of "good times," you end up with the dy-no-mite hour. - "g...

- michael evans, who was a guy from "all in the family," he had access to norman lear, and norman lear told him to write something, and he wrote something with eric monte. - just to get that chance to prove yes, we deserve to be here. i think eric monte and mike evans proved that. - dy-no-mite! (upbeat funky music) (audience laughs) dy-no-mite. i know might i did a little tiny dynamite just in rehearsal. john rich, our director, says, "i love that dy-no-mite thing. heres how you do it. dy-no-mit...

We deserve to be here. i think eric monte and mike evans proved that. - dy-no-mite! (upbeat funky music) (audience laughs) dy-no-mite. i know might i did a little tiny dynamite just in rehearsal. john rich, our director, says, "i love that dy-no-mite thing. heres how you do it. dy-no-mite!" i said, "john, please, people will never go for this." - then jimmy walkers character takes over, and instead of "good times," you end up with the dy-no-mite hour. - "good times" was a microcosm of what it is...

Up. i love it even more now that they have rebooted it and set it in montgomery, alabama, because it reminded me of my childhood. >> lee daniels acquired the rights to the original wonder years because he wanted to tell a story about the black middle class experienced during the late 60s. >> i didnt want to direct it. i didnt want to write it. i just didnt want to mess it up, so i found a great show runner, writer, who had a good take on it. >> i came on board. >> not just the tragedy and the pa...

Just did not sit well with me. i had to say, "i dont think that black father would say that to his black son." - i thought what i went through tonight with the worst thing thats ever happened to me, but i was wrong. not having my own father believe me is even worse. - i remember the showrunner getting very angry, wondering if i was saying he was racist, and i remember realizing at that moment, as black people, our desire to depict authentic versions of ourselves is always negotiated because if i...

To these households. "good times" had that. - "good times" made history because it was the first time we had black creators. - all right, come on over here, lionel. - michael evans, who was a guy from "all in the family," he had access to norman lear, and norman lear told him to write something, and he wrote something with eric monte. - just to get that chance to prove yes, we deserve to be here. i think eric monte and mike evans proved that. - dy-no-mite! (upbeat funky music) (audience laughs) ...

I said, "john, please, people will never go for this." - then jimmy walkers character takes over, and instead of "good times," you end up with the dy-no-mite hour. - "good times" was a microcosm of what it is to produce black television. - eric monte and mike evans were forced to partner with a white show runner. that reflected a dynamic that we see throughout the history of black tv, which is having black creatives needing the co-sign of a white person in order to make their thing, even though ...

Really, really big, "pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat "the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window," unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. so pick me. choose me. love me. - and in shondas case, its fantastic, because finally a woman, finally a person of color is doing this. - anything that opens doors for more women and more african-americans and more diverse casting and more diverse crew is a good thing. - shonda stood up and went, "ye...

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