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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Daveed Diggs

Thoughts

Saying

People

" I feel like, anytime I'm onstage, I tend to feel very connected with people in the audience or with the sort of heartbeat or tempo of the audience. "

" I have a recognizable silhouette. "

Daveed Diggs

Recognizable

Silhouette

" Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope. "

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

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

" Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool. "

" Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person. "

" I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson. "

" It wasn't until I got out in the world and started worked professionally when I realized that the people I admired were the ones who had taken the little snippets of what they learned that worked for them - and strung them together in their own technique. "

" I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing. "

" 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. "

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

" Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life. "

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

" 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. "

Daveed Diggs

Acting

Great

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

" As more doors open for me, I try to always bring people who I know through. "

" 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. "

Daveed Diggs

Enough

Fast

" That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius. "

" Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off. "

" 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. "

Daveed Diggs

Back

Feeling

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

Daveed Diggs

Feel

Walking