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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I'm the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the only way to not go to therapy.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.
- Huge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge pin collector.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things are constantly evolving, and anything could happen. And that's exciting to me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perceptions really do define what our realities are. What we're hoping to do with 'Atlanta' is to really shatter that. To shatter it completely wide open. To go from the furthest lane of absurdity to the furthest lane of reality and make them blend.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I love that you can just walk into the club and hear Young Jeezy or hear Fetty, and it's on.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did what he had to do.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
On top of trying to find my way in this business and losing my mother and trying to figure out what family meant to me and everything - 2016, there was a lot of anger from me and a lot of anger all around. I think the hardest part was to really realize that all these things, it's worth it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There's no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can't relate to 'Atlanta.'
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very grateful, first of all, for my friends and my family because they keep me grounded, and they make sure I'm taking care of myself and that I'm keeping my sanity about me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hug your mom. Hug your mom and thank your mom.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing that accepts me and embraces me.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can put Trump in the White House, but you need to prepare for a revolt because I'm going nuts.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her school during the summer and helping her decorate her classroom. I would draw Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck. She was a sixth grade teacher. She and my father are the ones that got me into my love of music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.
- Likes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me, 'Are you a singer?' I say, 'No, I'm not a 'singer' - but I love the craft of singing,' going in and finding out what that means or why the hell I'm singing in the first place. My thing is really the craft of it.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college in Atlanta, so I know that city.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything. It's not about how you look - it's about what you say. It's about what message you're getting across.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life should be art, right?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Governor, mayor, senator, I hope he does it all. You better believe it.
- Club
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a club - clubs are, like, not my favorite thing.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in show choir in high school.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.
- Nov 07, 2020
Theater's literally where I started.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had a gorgeous singing voice, and she'd play these amazing vinyls. My favorite was 'But Not for Me,' on the 1954 album 'Chet Baker Sings.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it serve any studio to not reflect the lives of people who are giving you money, who are crying out to you, 'Hey, please tell our stories.'
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that there's a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself, and he turns on the television, like, 'Oh my God, thank you.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that's hard.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where I went to college. I have so many great friends that live there. It's where I discovered that I wanted to be an artist.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dare somebody to go to Atlanta and not have a good time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the product of those who believed in me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to be who I am.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love Instagram for the artwork.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to draw and do a lot of calligraphy and typography. I'm a big sketcher, too.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities that's really good at uniting people.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the city that kind of formulated who I am. And, not only that, but to be black in Atlanta is one of the greatest things because you can go anywhere and feel familiar with anyone who's right next to you, from Bankhead to Buckhead.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, it's incredibly important to have a show like 'Atlanta' because if we can't stand up for and celebrate each other, then who will? Who will do it better?
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually get approached by older white ladies of a certain class, with their pearls and, you know, their Talbots on and everything, and they're like, 'We just have to say, we know we're not your demographic, but we love Paper Boi; we really love this show, and we love what you're doing.' It's totally cool.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020