Quotes from Brandon Victor Dixon

People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.

I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of theatrical work.

Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.

I very rarely go back to do shows again. I'm done once I've learned the lessons I need to learn.

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

My hero is Michael Jackson. Was and continues to be. He's amazing. When I was growing up, it was the time of 'Thriller' and 'Bad.' I'd come home from school and put on the vinyls. I'd put on a white V-neck T-shirt and roll back the carpet and dance for hours. I'd moonwalk and do the spins.

Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.

I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.

Every experience I've had with 'Power' has been so great, so to become a series regular was fantastic.

It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.

'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.

My love for The Four Tops cannot be expressed greatly enough.

I think 'Rent' will run forever.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it.

Oh, yeah - 'The Good Wife' was a lot of fun to do. It was a short scene I did, but Josh Charles was very nice, and Julianna Margulies was so sweet. We had a very good time.

Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.

The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.

When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.