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.
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?
I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Governor, mayor, senator, I hope he does it all. You better believe it.
Being in a club - clubs are, like, not my favorite thing.
I was in show choir in high school.
Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.
I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.
Theater's literally where I started.
In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.
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.'
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.
Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
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.
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.'
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.'
Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that's hard.
Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.
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.
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.
