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" 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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Yvonne Orji

You

Think

Makeup

" Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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?' "

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

Yvonne Orji

Yourself

Grow

" 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 just love new, beautiful music. "

" I would never do something I'm uncomfortable with. "

" I'm grounded in who I am. "

Yvonne Orji

Grounded

I Am

" There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance. "

Yvonne Orji

Random

Phone

" 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.' "

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

" People are surprised I do comedy! And I'm like, 'Guys, that's all I have been doing. For, like, forever.' "

Yvonne Orji

Doing

Forever

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

" I've been fortunate that the men I surround myself with in the comedy world are really decent people: men who are very aware, who are very respectful, and understand their place and maybe even some of their privilege. "

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

" I was supposed to be the doctor in my family. "

" 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?' "

Yvonne Orji

Women

Home

" As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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 used to work in public health, and the issues were sustainability, how the funds were being delineated, and if the funds were actually helping the people we think they're helping. "

" There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black. "

" 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? "