First time Quote by Phillipa Soo

The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or black. They…

— John Leguizamo

With 'Hamilton,' what's cool about the show is that even super-old white people come to see the show and hang on every word, it's…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

It wasn't until 'Hamilton' that I began to be considered an actor of color, and I really don't know what to make of it.

— Phillipa Soo

“Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?' Carl Anthony quoted by…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up…

— Rita Williams-Garcia

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

In theater, you can be free. That's how Lin-Manuel Miranda got to do the most revolutionary piece of theater with 'Hamilton': color-blind casting in…

— John Leguizamo

“I spent so much of my life on the outside that I began to doubt that I would ever truly be in with any…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward…

— Martin Luther King Jr