A biography for Tituss Burgesshasn’t been written yet.
“If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.”
“I'm obsessed with the 'Real Housewives ATL,' sorry about it. It's one of my favorite shows of all time.”
“For me, having walked through Times Square so many times as a broke and starving artist, as a TV star, and now having other hopes and dreams, it just represents possibility and the moment of full circle.”
“The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.”
“Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.”
“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.'”
“Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook?”
“Taking care of children was not something I was good at.”
“I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.”
“I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.”
“Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to be Christian, who wouldn't want to leave? I couldn't wait to get out of there.”
“I have always thought to do my best work.”
“I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails.”
“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.”
“I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!”
“Miserable people tend to act out.”
“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 enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.”
“When I cook at home, most of the people I cook for want to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking. I love nothing more than someone monitoring how much salt I put into something, how much pepper I add - but nothing that you can offer is going to sway how I decide to deliver information to you; you'll either receive it or you won't.”
“I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don't want to waste anyone's time.”