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" David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. "
Wendell Pierce
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" My father was so against me becoming an actor. "
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" I have so much love for art. "
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" The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart. "
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" 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. "
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" I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. "
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" The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton. "
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" We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. "
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" What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go. "
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" 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. "
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" The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will. "
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" 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. "
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" 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. "
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" When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action. "
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" My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans. "
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" The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums. "
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