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" I don't know who I'll end up with, but whoever he is must have a strong religious commitment, must be someone who loves God. "

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" I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent. "

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

" I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my masters. "

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

" We didn't grow up with TV as a viable means of supporting yourself. "

" When it comes to black female comedians, it's like, if you're not overweight, are you funny? There's rules, like, you can't be skinny and pretty and funny. I'm all three, sorry to break it to you. "

" For me, comedy was deftly terrifying. "

" I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, 'So you want to be a jester?' And I was like, 'I don't want to be a court jester, Ma. I want to be a comedian.' "

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

" Every time you're on stage, you're acting. "

" 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. "

" I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.' "

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

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

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

" I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm. "

" What you see on TV is what you believe you can be. "

" There are so many professional women who have to be this boss, but when they get home, it's like, 'Can someone take care of me? Can I not be so powerful?' "

" My actual desire is to be able to comfortably walk out of my house without any makeup on and feel as beautiful as I do when my makeup artist beats my face. "

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

" I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options. "

" A healthy smile has always been important to me. "

" If I'm home on Wednesdays, I go to Bible study. I get my God time in, definitely. "

" 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. "

" I took organic chemistry, and I got my first-ever F. I ended up going to summer school, and the whole time, I'm thinking, 'I am not good at sciences.' "

" It's only in acting where I've heard in auditions, 'Can you black it up a little bit? Can you make her a little bit more urban?' And it's just like, 'What?' I don't even know the word for that. "

" 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. "

" 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? "