I Think It's Sad, And Weird, And

I Want My Daughters To See Me And Know Me As A Woman Who Works. I Want That Example Set For Them... I Am A Better Mother For It. The Woman I Am Because I Get To Run Shondaland, Because I Get Write All Day, Because I Get To Spend My Days Making Things Up, That Woman Is A Better Person - And A Better Mother. Because That Woman Is Happy. That Woman Is Fulfilled. That Woman Is Whole. I Wouldn't Want Them To Know The Me Who Didn't Get To Do This All Day Long. I Wouldn't Want Them To Know The Me Who Wasn't Doing.

I Think It's Sad, And Weird, And Strange That [race In Casting] Is Still A Thing. It's 2013. Somebody Else Needs To Get Their Act Together.

A Hashtag Is Not Helping... A Hashtag Is Not A Movement. A Hashtag Does Not Make You Dr. King. A Hashtag Does Not Change Anything. It's A Hashtag.

It Can Be Scary To Find Out You've Been Wrong About Something But We Can't Be Afraid To Change Our Minds, To Accept That Things Are Different, That They'll Never Be The Same, For Better Or For Worse. We Have To Be Willing To Give Up What We Used To Believe. The More We're Willing To Accept What Is And Not What We Thought, We'll Find Ourselves Exactly Where We Belong.

Everyone Always Says To Me, 'why Aren't There More People Of Color On Television?' I'm Like, 'why Don't You Ask A Bunch Of People Who Aren't Putting People Of Color On Television Why There Aren't More People Of Color On Television?'