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" I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola. "

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" 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. "

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" I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic. "

" Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway. "

" I liked being on stage because it gave me a reason to be around people. The other great thing about acting is it allows you to imagine circumstances different from your own. I was a poor Bay Area kid getting to pretend to be a Russian aristocrat. "

" I make the energy to go out. You can't let the Broadway schedule run you. "

" I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life. "

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

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

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

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

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" Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing. "

" I didn't aspire to be on Broadway. "

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" I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing. "

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" Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in a way that feels natural. "

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" Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop. "

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" What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying. "

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