I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
“I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.”
— Leslie Odom, Jr. · Boy
The World Motivation
I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
“I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.”
— Leslie Odom, Jr. · Boy
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“I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.”
“It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.”
“I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was something about recording and then hearing myself back.”
“What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.”
“Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!”
“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?”
“That's my boy. Young Thug making hits!”
“I like being a boy, but I also really like being a girl.”
“Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.”
“Man, my little boy wanted to hear some new music. So it was like, I can't just play all my music around him, so I got to go ahead and make a whole project so I can get it clean, and have a clean version of all the songs just so he can listen to my music, you feel me?”
“Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved.”
“Freshman year of college, one of my coaches was out with family friends or whatever. Somebody said my name and kind of stuttered it or mumbled it. He was like, 'What'd you say? Mr. Biscuit?' instead of Mitchell Trubisky. It kind of stuck that week of practice, and that's what all the boys started calling me.”