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Janicza Bravo

“The jewel of getting older is being able to appreciate the road more. Or being able to look back on the road and go, ‘yes, it was hard, but it...

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Larry Wilmore

“I was guided by wanting to put something on TV that wasn’t there. I’m not the person that you come to and you say, ‘We want to do...

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Vince Staples

“If you live in and you accept those moments and learn from those moments while making music, I think that’s the art of it. Not necessarily the...

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Ts Madison

 “There’s nothing like liberation. Life can have you bound and chained to your past. It can have you bound and chained to rules. It can...

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Steven Soderbergh

“We’re a species wired for narrative, and I love being a part of that storytelling continuum. It’s a real pleasure and privilege to be working...

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Uzo Aduba

“[The work] came home with me. From the interior, I could see and feel this woman who had lost track of her pain. I could feel her pain and her...

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Dave Eggers

“I don’t know if it started with giving every superhero an origin story, but we so hurt the cause of art if it’s really just the end product of...

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Sleater-Kinney

“There’s always been something about Sleater-Kinney that’s been as much symbolic as it is actual. But inside of that are two real...

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Ocean Vuong

“Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. To create an architecture in which the book can...

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Jake Tapper

“Truth and decency, I think, are things that we’re allowed to take positions on, but not just allowed, supposed to take positions on...

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Anna Sale

“Life is having the bottom fall out and having to rebuild it back. And how you rebuild it back–and with whom–is what our lives are made of...

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Anna Sale

“Life is having the bottom fall out and having to rebuild it back. And how you rebuild it back–and with whom–is what our lives are made of...

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Michael Lewis

“The goal is to move through life in a way that you don’t miss the thing you really love to do. That you don’t walk away from it by mistake...

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Jhumpa Lahiri

“Nothing is ours. Life is borrowed. We’re here for such a short time and we just pass through and borrow it all. We borrow the sky, we...

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Dr. Bernard Lafayette

“When people show you their worst side, the best response you can have is to find a way to bring the best out of them. Not the worst. So that’s...

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Joel Meyerowitz

Legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz has been capturing life itself since 1962. Whether on the streets of New York City, the sand dunes of Cape...

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Kevin Abstract

“I knew people connected with bravery. I forced myself to be myself in music because I knew that all the artists I loved were fully themselves, and...

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Songs for You

After a week like this one, we decided to put a pause on talking for today. Instead, a mixtape. Songs for you and yours, chosen by our Talk Easy team...

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