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" If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored. "

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" Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song. "

" I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd jobs to pay the bills before that. And being in New York for the first year, I got here in 2003, and it was a very exciting but very scary time not knowing how you would make ends meet and me trying to meet people. "

" I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it. "

" The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to. "

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" I had this one audition - I won't say the casting director's name, but she was on the phone the whole time I sang. I was literally doing my audition, and she was on the phone. So I guess whatever it is she was ordering for lunch was more important than the high C's I was belting out. "

" I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's. "

" Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone. "

" Sondheim is New York. "

" I don't like flashy things. "

" To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have. "

" I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here. "

" When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is. "

" On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of the house. And of course, on film, there's different angles, different shots, so that determines how animated or how still you must be. "

" We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television. "

" Actors are a peculiar breed. "

" I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don't want to waste anyone's time. "

" I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line. "

" When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it. "

" I could not leave Georgia fast enough. "

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" When I cook at home, most of the people I cook for want to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking. I love nothing more than someone monitoring how much salt I put into something, how much pepper I add - but nothing that you can offer is going to sway how I decide to deliver information to you; you'll either receive it or you won't. "

" I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV. "

" The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work. "

" I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian. "

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" There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man. "

" So much of what I do is inspired by and for the LGBTQ community and for everyone but, just, being a theater kid and wanting to do stuff that represents us in a positive light. "