I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.
It’s always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know how to live in a man’s world. Gay people have to know how to live in a straight world. Black people gotta know how to live in a predominantly white world.
I don’t want to be a flash in the pan. I don’t want people to just remember me for one thing.
What was so lovely about ‘O.J.’ and ‘This Is Us’ to a certain extent is that I got a chance to surprise people.
My wife and I will often have conversations about ‘Good Times’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ and ‘Sanford and Son.’ They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.
Every time I’d do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.
In my mind, I’m still this kid from St. Louis, Missouri, that nobody really knows.
I went to a college prep high school in St. Louis, Missouri. When I graduated from school, I owned this thing called the Headmaster’s Cup, and the Headmaster’s Cup is for the student who exemplifies the spirit of the institution and is recognized by the faculty and administration.
I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that’s culturally very different.
My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of us would caravan in four or five vehicles and hit every corner of the connected 48.
You got to let the people know while they’re here how much they’re appreciated and how much you love them.
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