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" A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play. "
Problem
Cats
Musicians
" And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on. "
Journey
Who
Understanding
" At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath. "
Always
Voice
Breath
" Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. "
Self
True
True Self
" Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre. "
School
People
Only
" Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. "
Death
Love
People
" David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. "
Brilliant
Take
Ordinary
" Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' "
Universal
Art
More
" Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe. "
People
Like
Seen
" I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor. "
Choices
Challenges
Myself
" I have so much love for art. "
Art
Love
Much
" I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television. "
Television
Film
Know
" I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way. "
Kind
Like
Way
" In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows. "
News
Small
Police
" In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us. "
Climb
Chair
House
" I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it. "
Practice
Trumpet
Two
" I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft. "
Time
Training
Craft
" I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do. "
Genres
Could
Juilliard
" It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very important if you want people considering you for other projects to broaden their view of you. "
Yourself
People
Unexpected
" It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful. "
Live
Fans
You
" I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one. "
Just
Two
Guy
" I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. "
Three
Baltimore
American
" I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem. "
Show
Love
Harlem
" I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton. "
Story
Real
Love
" Jon Voight is a consummate American actor. "
American
Consummate
Actor
" Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything. "
Everything
Comedy
Ability
" My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that. "
Me
Racism
Past
" My father was so against me becoming an actor. "
Me
Against
Actor
" My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans. "
Teachers
Mother
New
" New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. "
Death
Culture
Marriage
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