I think that’s the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we’re so used to being excluded. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
That’s the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
Atlanta’ is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don’t deserve to have them. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
Just to say ‘woke’ is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don’t feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
Things are constantly evolving, and anything could happen. And that’s exciting to me. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I’m the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the only way to not go to therapy. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
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. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that’s hard. Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
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.’ Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
