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" Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby. "

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" For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination. "

Jessica Williams

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" You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them. "

" As an executive producer, I feel really lucky. "

" Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable. "

" When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married. "

" I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward. "

" Height has been very, very central to the development of my personality. "

" It's cool to see a woman be like, 'This is what I want - this is what I don't want.' It's good to see someone making choices for themselves. "

" I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'. "

" I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing. "

" Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person. "

" It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others. "

" You can learn so much just by observing. "

" Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will be just from a satirical, goofy perspective. "

" I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!' "

" As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. "

" I don't know how to cook. I work a lot. So, for me, then, it's important to find a man who can cook. Who will make the house a home more than I can. "

Jessica Williams

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" I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion. "

Jessica Williams

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" Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you. "

" I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife. "

Jessica Williams

Feel

" I had to get used to seeing Samantha Bee around. I had to get used to seeing Jon, like, getting a bagel, and to John Oliver, and all these people whom I had seen on TV. Colbert would sometimes drop by. I had to get used to being a part of this multiple-Emmy-winning machine and being this 22-year-old black girl who was really green. "

" There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races. "

" I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness. "

Jessica Williams

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" I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into. "