“My Blackness, my Latinidad, and my queerness all resonate in me equall...” — Ariana DeBose Quote

“My Blackness, my Latinidad, and my queerness all resonate in me equally and can't be separated from each other.”

“Hamilton' was just bigger than us almost immediately. I watched my friends become rockstars, and I sort of got the benefit of being in the ensemble.”

“I actually got my AFTRA card before SAG because they had not merged yet. I got my AFTRA card because I booked a job on 'One Life to Live.'”

“When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.”

“I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'”