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

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" As strong as we are, we have our moments. My mama is an African woman who had four kids and was a nurse for 25 years, and she had her moments. I've seen her cry. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like things to happen organically. "

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

" On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't. "

" A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way. "

" 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. "

" You can't tell me no, because you can't tell Jesus no. It doesn't work. "

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

" 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!' "

" There's a lot of negative speak about what it means to be an immigrant. I'm like, 'OK, I don't know where that came from.' We do the dirty jobs. We do the good jobs. We get the job done. "

" 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 grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion. "

" On 'Insecure,' Molly works at a law firm, and there's scenes where her boss doesn't value her voice and doesn't value her efforts. And we had a lot of women tweeting 'Me too' in that situation. We're saying, 'Hey, no more. Not on our watch.' "

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

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

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

" For me, comedy was deftly terrifying. "

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

" 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 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 don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends. "

" I worked for a company called Population Services International, a social marketing company advocating healthy behaviors. We had a big branding campaign with celebrities to help educate about the proper use of mosquito nets, for example, to help prevent malaria. "

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