BOOKS:No Name in the Streetby James Baldwin

“I revisited it this summer.

It’s one of the most timely pieces I’ve ever read.

I’ve just always had this book with me.”

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I originatedThe Book of Mormonon Broadway.

And my character was the first to have f— in his name.

So I got to say f— on Broadway every day.

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It was like, ‘This, to me, is progress.'"

I think I watched it first when I was 5.

The scene where Celie is separated from her sister?

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Joan Marcus

I was already bawling.

I can quote the movie from beginning to end."

I’m delighted every single time I watch [it].

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I’m a Southern boy as well."

MUSIC: Tall Black Guy

“He does a lot of instrumentals.

It’s literally like meditative music.

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BONUS: House of Intuition

“It’s a magical shop in L.A.

I’ve always set up altars everywhere I go.

There is a candle this place makes called Honor Your Ancestors that I always purchase.”

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James Newton

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House of Intuition