Lena Waithe Quotes

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

'The Simpsons' is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

I would watch 'All In The Family' with my babysitter.

I grew up listening to everybody.

I remember religiously watching Ellen DeGeneres' show when I was growing up.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

Who didn't grow up through the '90s watching 'Friends?'

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns.

'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

It's kind of low brow, but the show 'Bob's Burgers' is hilarious, and being from the Midwest, I can kind of relate to a lot of the jokes. 'Orange is The New Black' is a Netflix Exclusive, I think - that's really funny.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.