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" I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person. "

" If you do enough rap shows, you get a pretty good sense of an audience. You start to develop this sense of what a feeling of a room or a group is. "

" I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore. "

" I have a recognizable silhouette. "

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

" I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music. "

" I think this idea of a big break is a lie. "

" 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?' "

" My parents are not together, but they were both always around. "

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

" History is about who tells it. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren't a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying. "

" I feel like, anytime I'm onstage, I tend to feel very connected with people in the audience or with the sort of heartbeat or tempo of the audience. "

" 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. "

" Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels. "

" College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were. "

" 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. "