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.
タグ: past, racism, me, best

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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
タグ: your, true, self, you
In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows.
タグ: news, dad, city, police
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.
タグ: marriage, music, death, life
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.
タグ: always, diversity, you, work
Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.
タグ: drama, comedy, go, me
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