American - Actor | January 24, 1982 -
My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.
Daveed Diggs
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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 way that no one has ever said it before?'
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Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.
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Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.
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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 all feels like the same thing to me anyway.
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I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola.
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It wasn't until I got out in the world and started worked professionally when I realized that the people I admired were the ones who had taken the little snippets of what they learned that worked for them - and strung them together in their own technique.
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The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.
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As more doors open for me, I try to always bring people who I know through.
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I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.
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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 the change is drastic.
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Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass.
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