Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
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Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that's hard.
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Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.
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I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
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My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her school during the summer and helping her decorate her classroom. I would draw Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck. She was a sixth grade teacher. She and my father are the ones that got me into my love of music.
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I am the product of those who believed in me.
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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.'
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I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.
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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.'
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Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.
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I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.
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I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.
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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.
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Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
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I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.
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At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.
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You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.
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My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.
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I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.
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Hug your mom. Hug your mom and thank your mom.
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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?
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It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities that's really good at uniting people.
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Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.
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I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.