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" 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.' "

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Voice

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

" 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? "

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

Yvonne Orji

Employed

Convenience

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

Yvonne Orji

Focus

Faith

" I believe in the equal and opposite: If I exist, there is an equal and opposite version of me, and so however long I have to wait, and wherever he happens to be, we'll find it. Sometimes it's like, 'Jesus, where he at?' "

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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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Yvonne Orji

People

Opportunity

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Yvonne Orji

She

Doing

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Grounded

I Am

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