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

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" 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 didn't aspire to be on Broadway. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?' "

" 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. "

" My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too. "

" 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. "

" If a project feels good to you, say yes. And do it with everything that you have and hope that the outcome is good. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My favorite Prince album is 'Sign o' the Times.' "

" I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass. "

" 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. "

" 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? "