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" Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out. "

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" 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. "

" The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people. "

" I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah. "

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

" 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. "

" There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real. "

" TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time. "

" As a kid, you don't have a ton of spaces where you are honored, where what you think is honored and what you say is revered. "

" I have a recognizable silhouette. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and I've trained myself to do; it's a thing I do in the Bay Area. "

" 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. "

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

" That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius. "

" I miss doing a straight play. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I call myself a nerd all the time. "

" 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. "

" I felt so loved and taken care of, and that's a huge part of the reason I'm able to do what I do. "

" 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. "