I don't think there's a day that goes by where I go to the supermarket that a woman doesn't come up and want to give me a hug. It's a crazy thing when you're in the freezer department and some woman comes up behind you and says, 'Can I just hug you, please?' When it first happened, it really blew my mind.

Ron Cephas Jones

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Every morning that I wake up and I'm breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, 'Thank God I'm alive for another day.'

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When you know your history, you have a better vision of where you're going. And, when you have that, there's no stopping you.

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better you vision history

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

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doing you truth character

Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there's not a lot of history there. It's sort of a half-animal, half-man, and there's not a lot of background.

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I have a very close relationship with my daughter.

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close very daughter relationship

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

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Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to jazz, it's a connecting city from New Orleans that goes all the way up to Buffalo through New York.

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God bless my mother; I know you're looking down on me.

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I can use all the hugs I can get.

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I've always loved Harlem and its communities.

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I like to shop for old jazz albums.

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I wanted to be a jazz musician.

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I have a beautiful collection of albums and try to frequent record stores.

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Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

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more great character life

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

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Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

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I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.

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loved music history school

My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.

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As we like to say on 'This Is Us,' death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!

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say never character death

Life is precious - very, very precious.

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