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" Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us. "

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" At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I'm going to make a move, I gotta make a move now. "

" I've been studying myself because I always want to improve. "

" Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore. "

" I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person. "

" That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh. "

" I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view. "

" What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts. "

" I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while. "

" One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic. "

" It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say. "

" When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing. "

" I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love. "

" Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said. "

" I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding. "

" Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through. "

" It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time. "

" My material reaches everyone. "

" I don't have a lot of time for television because I am making it, so it's really hard for me to sit down. But when I do get a chance, I try to catch up on 'Scandal,' 'Empire' and 'black-ish.' "

" In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from 'Saturday Night Live.' He's a widower, and I'm a mother who's helping him to get over the loss of his wife. "

" Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street! "

" I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth. "

" I do like to laugh at and talk about relationships. "

" Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game. "

" I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships. "

" If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20? "

" I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting. "

" Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need. "

" I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that? "