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" I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton. "
Wendell Pierce
Story
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Love
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" 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. "
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" The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums. "
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" Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. "
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" David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. "
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Take
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" Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. "
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Ocean
" I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television. "
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Know
" 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. "
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" My father was so against me becoming an actor. "
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Against
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Sports
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" 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. "
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Sports
Loyalty
Memories
" 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. "
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School
People
Only
" I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. "
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Three
Baltimore
American
" I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do. "
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Genres
Could
Juilliard
" The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. "
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Community
Almost
Team
" A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play. "
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Musicians
" 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. "
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I Think
Classic
American
" We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. "
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Behavior
Always
Say
" 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. "
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News
Small
Police
" It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very important if you want people considering you for other projects to broaden their view of you. "
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Yourself
People
Unexpected
" My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans. "
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Teachers
Mother
New
" The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development. "
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Justice
Development
Social Justice
" Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything. "
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Comedy
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" 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. "
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Hope
Culture
Through
" Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' "
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Universal
Art
More
" One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city. "
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People
Television
City
" I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft. "
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Training
Craft
" I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way. "
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Way
" 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. "
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Always
Voice
Breath
" 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. "
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Chair
House