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" Being multiracial has allowed me to feel comfortable walking in all different circles. "

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" Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing. "

" I love that 'Black-ish' is a pretty traditional sitcom, structurally. It functions like the sitcoms from the '80s and '90s that I grew up with. "

" Broadway was weird. "

" Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life. "

" Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass. "

" I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have. "

" The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough together that you don't trip up over them. "

" It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is this idea about authenticity as a rapper, in the fact that you rap things that are yours. That's not what doing a play is. You're interpreting somebody else's words. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way. "

" To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain. "

" TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time. "

" I call myself a nerd all the time. "

" The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day. "

" I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy. "

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

" 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. "

" I make the energy to go out. You can't let the Broadway schedule run you. "

" College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were. "

" I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and I've trained myself to do; it's a thing I do in the Bay Area. "

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" I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah. "

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" The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people. "