I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.
“I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.”
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I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.
“I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.”
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“I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.”
“It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.”
“I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.”
“Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?”
“I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.”
“I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.”
“I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.”
“Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.”
“I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.”
“Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'”
“I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended family.”
“I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.”