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" Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right? "

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" Sometimes you are the only living, walking, breathing version of the Bible that people will ever see. What long-lasting taste are you going to leave in their mouths? A lot of people have left a bad taste. And it's so unfortunate, because God is the best! "

" Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn. "

" Some people just don't subscribe to labels. "

" You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls. "

" I love a dark brown blush, like brown on brown. "

" My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all. "

" My faith has really been the biggest asset of my career. It has grounded me and let me focus on what's important. "

" Everyone has met or seen or interacted with a Nigerian in America because we leave Nigeria for here. We're your doctors. We're your lawyers. We're your child's best friend. All of the above. "

" I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it just makes it so much easier to release control, cuz at the end of the day, if He brought me to it, He's gonna have to bring me through it. "

" If you're a woman of colour and you have any level of education, you have to adapt. "

" My mom would always say, 'Hair is a woman's beauty.' I cut my hair all off. I was completely bald, and that was, like, 'What in the world?' My mom was like, 'What happened?' She had so many questions. "

" New York is a walking city, so you'll be dressed to the nines, and you'll go out, and you feel more special and more pretty because more people acknowledge you. "

" Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day. "

" Wanda Sykes and I have had similar career trajectories. We're both from the D.C. area. She spent five years working as a contracting specialist for the NSA, and I got my master's in public health. "

" As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self. "

" On a man, I love Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille. But I wear Orchid Soleil - I love a sweet smell. "

" I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do. "

" By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school. "

" I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names. "

" I was looking around this room, this sea of industry folk. If I had have worn black and white, somebody would have asked me to get them a cocktail; the only other people of colour there were servers. "

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" I just love new, beautiful music. "

" I grew up in a place called Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the youngest of four. What I remember most about Nigeria was the ease. I would play by the pool, have fun with friends. "

" How many shows on TV do you see young black people, both women and men, really embody a full-fledged human being, flaws and all? "

" I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me. "

" I remember talking to old-school African American grandpops, and they're just like, 'When I saw my wife, I looked up from across the street, and I said, 'That girl gon' be my wife someday.' And we've been married 45 years.' Like, what? That's all it took? "

" I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life. "

" To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me. "

" Auto-pay is not for convenience; it's for the gainfully employed. "