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" It's so much easier when you're a size two or three to just slip on anything. But a big girl, sometimes you've got to strap some stuff down! "

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" The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening. "

" Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is. "

" Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthy. "

" I want adopted people to know they were chosen. "

" Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it. "

" A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny. "

" I saw Nichelle Nichols in 'Truck Turner,' and she was so good. "

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" As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key. "

" Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you. "

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" Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day. "

" I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back. "

" I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy. "

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" After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!' "

" It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role. "

" Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh. "

" I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child. "

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" If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school. "

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" I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.' "

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" In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life. "