Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that’s the thing that I loved about ‘The Wire.’ Wendell Pierce Read Quote
I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He’s sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem. Wendell Pierce Read Quote
The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity – a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums. Wendell Pierce Read Quote
The role of culture is that it’s the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we’ve been, where we hope to be. Wendell Pierce Read Quote
Be your true self. Because if you’re not, there are consequences to be paid. Wendell Pierce Read Quote
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It’s how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment… all of that is expressed in culture. Wendell Pierce Read Quote
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. Wendell Pierce Read Quote
In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows. Wendell Pierce Read Quote
