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" 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. "

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" 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? "

Yvonne Orji

American

Wife

Street

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

" 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.' "

Yvonne Orji

Parents

Immigrant

" 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 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'll probably always opt for makeup because I just like the way it feels. You can play with it and create different looks, and I think that's fun. But I also want the option to not need it. "

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

Yvonne Orji

Father

Nothing

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

" I knew I didn't want to be a doctor but didn't know what I wanted to do. I prayed, and all I heard back was: 'Do comedy.' It was something I had never done before, but I gave in, tried comedy, and the rest is history. "

" I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life. "

" I'm grounded in who I am. "

Yvonne Orji

Grounded

I Am

" I had my masters in public health, and the goal was to be a doctor, and organic chemistry let me know that that was not going to happen, as did my fear of blood. "

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

" 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

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

" There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time. "

" I just love new, beautiful music. "

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

" I want to own a comedy club. "

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

Yvonne Orji

Employed

Convenience

" For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't know how often white people look around and think, 'Wow, there's really a lot of white people here; we should fix that.' But I know black people often look around and think, 'Wow, I'm the only one here - why?' "

" It's great for people to give out of the kindness of their hearts, but because we're in a consumerist society, it's also great to have the opportunity to give and get. "

" 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. "

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

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

" For me, comedy was deftly terrifying. "

Yvonne Orji

Terrifying

Comedy