"Hug your mom. Hug your mom and thank your mom." — Brian Tyree Henry

It's really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There's no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can't relate to 'Atlanta.'

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 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.

Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.

I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.

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.

The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.

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Hug your mom. Hug your mom and thank your mom.