I didn’t aspire to be on Broadway. — Daveed Diggs

To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just–that sentence doesn’t make any sense in my brain. — Daveed Diggs

I make the energy to go out. You can’t let the Broadway schedule run you. — Daveed Diggs

That’s the great thing about how ‘SVU’ works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show. — Daveed Diggs

As a kid, you don’t have a ton of spaces where you are honored, where what you think is honored and what you say is revered. — Daveed Diggs

There’s a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren’t a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying. — Daveed Diggs

I’m from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola. — Daveed Diggs

I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It’s a thing I’m good at and I’ve trained myself to do; it’s a thing I do in the Bay Area. — Daveed Diggs

The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it’s the writing of them, with consonants close enough together that you don’t trip up over them. — Daveed Diggs

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I’ve been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway. — Daveed Diggs

Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in a way that feels natural. — Daveed Diggs

There’s no reason for somebody who’s good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They’re different parts of your brain. You can develop both skills. I’m a much better writer. — Daveed Diggs

The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It’s a real change you can effect in somebody’s life every day. — Daveed Diggs

I think people understand I’m not actually the real Thomas Jefferson. — Daveed Diggs

History is about who tells it. — Daveed Diggs

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out. — Daveed Diggs

I’m an artist, so days don’t start on any regular time. — Daveed Diggs

That’s the great thing about being a teenager. You think you’re a genius. — Daveed Diggs

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels. — Daveed Diggs

I’m aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have. — Daveed Diggs

I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life. — Daveed Diggs

I call myself a nerd all the time. — Daveed Diggs

Often, the people I’m working with on music are separate from the rest of my life. — Daveed Diggs

My parents are not together, but they were both always around. — Daveed Diggs