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

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" Being multiracial has allowed me to feel comfortable walking in all different circles. "

" The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough together that you don't trip up over them. "

" I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson. "

" 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. "

" My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too. "

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

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

" If a project feels good to you, say yes. And do it with everything that you have and hope that the outcome is good. "

" There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You can develop both skills. I'm a much better writer. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have a recognizable silhouette. "

" 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. "

" I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things. "

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

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

" 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 miss doing a straight play. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" History is about who tells it. "

" Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off. "

" It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is this idea about authenticity as a rapper, in the fact that you rap things that are yours. That's not what doing a play is. You're interpreting somebody else's words. "

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

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