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

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" That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I've seen every one. I study them. Because I'm a rapper. It's what you do. "

" History is about who tells it. "

" To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope. "

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

" Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life. "

" 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. "

" Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person. "

" I have a recognizable silhouette. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" I have all of Kendrick Lamar on vinyl. "

" As more doors open for me, I try to always bring people who I know through. "

" 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. "