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" I felt so loved and taken care of, and that's a huge part of the reason I'm able to do what I do. "

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" I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion. "

" I can jump really high, yeah. I'm proud of that. I'll take it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing. "

" That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work. "

" I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.' "

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

" Broadway was weird. "

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

" I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola. "

" If you do enough rap shows, you get a pretty good sense of an audience. You start to develop this sense of what a feeling of a room or a group is. "

" 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. "

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

" The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially if you're in any kind of marginalized community where people don't want to listen. You have to come up with tricks to make them listen. "

" Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out. "

" 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. "

" I warm up a lot harder for a Clipping show than I ever did for 'Hamilton.' "

" To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that? "