Sterling K. Brown

So we're from the opposite side of the tracks.

So she thought everybody was going to be bougie.

And I thought everybody was going to be like hustlers.

And then we wound up hooking up with each other.

It was a moment of like, I don't have money.

the same thing to fall back on that other people do.

So whatever it is I'm going to do, know, Brown, that you're going to have to figure it out.

Nothing's getting handed.

I recruited to a couple of D3 schools, Claremont McKenna out here.

I wanted some place that was academically challenging.

And I liked the Claremont colleges, Pomona and all that type of stuff.

But then it felt like a little bit too much like my high school.

And I think I wanted something a little bit different.

So it wasn't that tempting to try to pursue that.

Not enough for another four years of being a raisin in the sun.

You know what I'm saying?

Like I told my college counselor, I said, I either want sunshine, because I'm from St.

Louis and it gets cold, or I want black people.

And I wound up getting both of them.

But the thing about Stanford is they show up spring quarter and it's like gorgeous.