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" My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be in life. "

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" How many shows on TV do you see young black people, both women and men, really embody a full-fledged human being, flaws and all? "

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

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

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

" '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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" Sometimes you are the only living, walking, breathing version of the Bible that people will ever see. What long-lasting taste are you going to leave in their mouths? A lot of people have left a bad taste. And it's so unfortunate, because God is the best! "

" 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. "

" I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names. "

" 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. "

" 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 think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.' "

" I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me. "

" Wanda Sykes and I have had similar career trajectories. We're both from the D.C. area. She spent five years working as a contracting specialist for the NSA, and I got my master's in public health. "

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

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

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

" For me, comedy was deftly terrifying. "

" I'm grounded in who I am. "

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

" I want to own a comedy club. "

" I like things to happen organically. "

" A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.' "

" Black girls can make the best girlfriends. "

" The thing about black women and black hair is that you just have to experiment. "