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

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

" There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way. "

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

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

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

" 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?' "

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

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

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

" A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

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

" I like things to happen organically. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt. "

" Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it. "

" 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'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. "

" To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me. "

" 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. "