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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop. "

" 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. "

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

" At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to. "

" 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've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I miss doing a straight play. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen. "

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

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

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