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My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.
Brian Tyree Henry
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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.'
Brian Tyree Henry -
I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I'm a huge pin collector.
Brian Tyree Henry -
Things are constantly evolving, and anything could happen. And that's exciting to me.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Governor, mayor, senator, I hope he does it all. You better believe it.
Brian Tyree Henry -
Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything. It's not about how you look - it's about what you say. It's about what message you're getting across.
Brian Tyree Henry
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At the end of the day, it's incredibly important to have a show like 'Atlanta' because if we can't stand up for and celebrate each other, then who will? Who will do it better?
Brian Tyree Henry -
I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I was in show choir in high school.
Brian Tyree Henry -
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.
Brian Tyree Henry -
My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.
Brian Tyree Henry
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When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
Brian Tyree Henry -
I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where I went to college. I have so many great friends that live there. It's where I discovered that I wanted to be an artist.
Brian Tyree Henry -
Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.
Brian Tyree Henry -
My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.
Brian Tyree Henry
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What does it serve any studio to not reflect the lives of people who are giving you money, who are crying out to you, 'Hey, please tell our stories.'
Brian Tyree Henry -
Sometimes, you need someone to believe in you when you don't believe in yourself.
Brian Tyree Henry -
Being in a club - clubs are, like, not my favorite thing.
Brian Tyree Henry -
You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.
Brian Tyree Henry