“We tried not to do poverty porn. The Kipling brothers have a mother and father - together, in the show, they have their own business. The mother does hair, the father has a barbershop, they live upstairs from the place. And in the episodes you can see that their home… we call it the place of warmth. There is a creativity there and a sense of community and one of the things that I really wanted to have in the show that I think that Baz and all the writers were really strong on is the idea of: yes, we have the street culture but… I grew up in New York in 1977, we had dinner at home! Our parents had day jobs! It wasn’t all bananas, there was a sense of structure. In your home you tried to protect the kids from the stuff that was going on outside.” -Nelson George (x)