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" Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. "
Wendell Pierce
Love
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" Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. "
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" 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. "
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" I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton. "
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" I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem. "
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" I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft. "
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" The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development. "
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" 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. "
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" David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. "
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" 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. "
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" I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' "
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More
" 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. "
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" My father was so against me becoming an actor. "
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Me
Against
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" It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful. "
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" 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. "
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" 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. "
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" What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go. "
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" 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. "
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" I have so much love for art. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans. "
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" One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart. "
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" My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that. "
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