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" I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it. "

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" I have so much love for art. "

" My father was so against me becoming an actor. "

" 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. "

" Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. "

" The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. "

" It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' "

" My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans. "

" David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. "

" We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. "

" 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. "

" The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be. "

" In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us. "

" I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem. "

" Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything. "

" I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do. "

" 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. "

" I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor. "

" The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. "

" I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. "

" I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way. "

" 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. "