Daveed Diggs

Broadway was weird.

— Daveed Diggs

I call myself a nerd all the time.

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As a kid, I was very shy.

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I miss doing a straight play.

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I didn't aspire to be on Broadway.

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I have a recognizable silhouette.

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History is about who tells it.

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

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Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation.

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I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.

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

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Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person.

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

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I think this idea of a big break is a lie.

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Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

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

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That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us…

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I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

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

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

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

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I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a…

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I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

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I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and…

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Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it…

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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…

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It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is…

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The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially…

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There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what…

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I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and…

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What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen…

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Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do…

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At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to.

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

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

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

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

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I warm up a lot harder for a Clipping show than I ever did for 'Hamilton.'

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I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.'

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

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