So we spoke Spanish at every business we walked into. “The biggest gifts my parents gave me (and I say that as I look at my sister in the audience, because she got these too) was one, I think, immense pride in our culture. Much like his play’s inspiration, Alexander Hamilton, Miranda’s been thinking a lot about legacy. Of course, as a dad of two children under five years old, the playwright had his children on his mind, and he was thinking of their future. Oprah brought Miranda, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert, Oscar-nominated director Jordan Peele, actress Yara Shahidi, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah and actress Salma Hayeck there for the latest edition of her live series, Supersoul Conversations. “It’s the only thing I’m leaving the house for,” Miranda said as he sat with the talk-show icon on the famed Apollo Theater stage in Harlem, New York. With a new baby, he was certain that he’d be out of the office for at least two months. There’s a moment where Eliza is singing to Hamilton, it’s called ‘That Would Be Enough.’ That’s the thing that changes,” he said of a new parent’s priorities. “You have this new person that, with any luck, is going to get some of the attributes of the love of your life. “There’s one song in Hamilton that is truly autobiographical There’s no historical precedent for it, it was just a song that came out while I was writing. It’s very surreal,” he said of watching his newborn change dramatically over the course of a week.
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