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" The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development. "
Wendell Pierce
Justice
Development
Social Justice
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" The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end. "
Wendell Pierce
Grief
Live
Night
" New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. "
Wendell Pierce
Death
Culture
Marriage
" In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us. "
Wendell Pierce
Climb
Chair
House
" Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. "
Wendell Pierce
Love
Park
Ocean
" I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor. "
Wendell Pierce
Choices
Challenges
Myself
" Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe. "
Wendell Pierce
People
Like
Seen
" One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart. "
Wendell Pierce
Heart
Great
Best
" I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one. "
Wendell Pierce
Just
Two
Guy
" I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way. "
Wendell Pierce
Kind
Like
Way
" I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do. "
Wendell Pierce
Genres
Could
Juilliard
" The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will. "
Wendell Pierce
Sports
Loyalty
Memories
" I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television. "
Wendell Pierce
Television
Film
Know
" I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it. "
Wendell Pierce
Practice
Trumpet
Two
" I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft. "
Wendell Pierce
Time
Training
Craft
" Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' "
Wendell Pierce
Universal
Art
More
" Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. "
Wendell Pierce
Self
True
True Self
" Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. "
Wendell Pierce
Death
Love
People
" It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very important if you want people considering you for other projects to broaden their view of you. "
Wendell Pierce
Yourself
People
Unexpected
" The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be. "
Wendell Pierce
Hope
Culture
Through
" Jon Voight is a consummate American actor. "
Wendell Pierce
American
Consummate
Actor
" At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath. "
Wendell Pierce
Always
Voice
Breath
" And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on. "
Wendell Pierce
Journey
Who
Understanding
" My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans. "
Wendell Pierce
Teachers
Mother
New
" One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city. "
Wendell Pierce
People
Television
City
" I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton. "
Wendell Pierce
Story
Real
Love
" Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre. "
Wendell Pierce
School
People
Only
" When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action. "
Wendell Pierce
Sports
Tough Times
Tough
" The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums. "
Wendell Pierce
You
Career
Diversity
" In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows. "
Wendell Pierce
News
Small
Police
" A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play. "
Wendell Pierce
Problem
Cats
Musicians