I liked being on stage because it gave me a reason to be around people. The other great thing about acting is it allows you to imagine circumstances different from your own. I was a poor Bay Area kid getting to pretend to be a Russian aristocrat. Daveed Diggs Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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?’ Daveed Diggs Read Quote
Often, the people I’m working with on music are separate from the rest of my life. Daveed Diggs Read Quote
Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work. Daveed Diggs Read Quote
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. Daveed Diggs Read Quote
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. Daveed Diggs Read Quote
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. Daveed Diggs Read Quote
TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time. Daveed Diggs Read Quote