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" All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Broadway show. There was no reason for me to do that. "

Daveed Diggs

Want

Nothing

New York

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" Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up. "

" I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore. "

" I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you. "

" Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway. "

Daveed Diggs

Writing

Doing

" As a kid, I was very shy. "

" I liked being on stage because it gave me a reason to be around people. The other great thing about acting is it allows you to imagine circumstances different from your own. I was a poor Bay Area kid getting to pretend to be a Russian aristocrat. "

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Acting

Great

" I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?' "

" There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren't a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying. "

" Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth. "

" I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music. "

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" I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic. "

Daveed Diggs

Back

Feeling

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Daveed Diggs

Vinyl

" As a kid, you don't have a ton of spaces where you are honored, where what you think is honored and what you say is revered. "

" Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation. "

" My parents are not together, but they were both always around. "

" History is about who tells it. "

" I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did. "

Daveed Diggs

Know

Nobody

" What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying. "

" I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time. "

" The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I've seen every one. I study them. Because I'm a rapper. It's what you do. "

" I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community. "

" Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person. "