Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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'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.
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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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The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.
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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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I am the product of those who believed in me.
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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 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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Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.
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Hug your mom. Hug your mom and thank your mom.
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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 learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.
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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'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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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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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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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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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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Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.
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I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.
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I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.
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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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The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
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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.'