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" 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? "

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

" I went to an all-girls boarding school in Maryland. I used to laugh at the girls in the theater program - I was pre-med, National Honors Society; I was on that track. "

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

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

" Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it. "

" I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard. "

" A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity. "

" Any show that speaks to people of color feels the burden to never mess up, never make its characters look bad - to always get it right. "

" 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. "

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

" Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity. "

" 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 came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer. "

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

" For me, comedy was deftly terrifying. "

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

" I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating. "

" For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.' "

" You can't say you're an actor if you've never acted, and you can't act if no one gives you an opportunity, but they won't give you an opportunity because you've never acted. You're like, 'What in the world? Someone give me a chance!' "

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

" High school is really when I came into my own. "

" I don't look at God as some boring dude in the sky that tells me what to do all day. I legitimately be like, 'Yo, you know what, G, that's crazy how that happened. That's dope. You know, you the real MVP.' "

" Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway. "

" 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. "

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" Black girls can make the best girlfriends. "

" A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.' "