Quotes from Tituss Burgess

I'm black. I'm gay. I'm culturally Christian. I am a walking target on so many levels, and it is horrifying and a cross that very, very many of us who look like me have to bear.

I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear.

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

I think Donald Trump has put America in great danger, and I think he's done a disservice to us even if he doesn't win. I think his effect is going to be kind of lasting.

Black people, if I may, we don't get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things outside the norm, outside of what is expected of us. Black women on Broadway are expected to put themselves downstage center and tear the roof off.

I don't like flashy things.

One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.'

Here's what I'm going to say about that: my personal thought about the brilliance of 'Peeno Noir' as proven by the fans' appreciation is that, when watched back, what makes it so exciting is the random locations and the random costume changes and the multiple shots that we've done all over the city.

I could not leave Georgia fast enough.

I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.

It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.

When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.

I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.

I will work for Tina Fey forever.

There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing.

When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.

My microphone went out in the 2009 Tony Awards. It was my big moment, and I was so excited to perform and lead the cast; I sang 'Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat.' Every actor dreams of standing front and center on the Tony Awards, and I start to sing, and you hear this crackling. I had no idea what to do - were they going to stop a live telecast?

Even on my worst days... the influx of joy that I get from interactions with fans... is a treat.

To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have.

I'm very involved in church and social-justice issues, and my personality is far more introspective.

I'm very much an introvert.

Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook?