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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. "

Yvonne Orji

World

Hair

Mom

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" As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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

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

" 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 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 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. "

" Everyone has met or seen or interacted with a Nigerian in America because we leave Nigeria for here. We're your doctors. We're your lawyers. We're your child's best friend. All of the above. "

" I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating. "

" I went to an all-girls boarding school in Maryland. I used to laugh at the girls in the theater program - I was pre-med, National Honors Society; I was on that track. "

" 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

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

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

" Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn. "

" I took organic chemistry, and I got my first-ever F. I ended up going to summer school, and the whole time, I'm thinking, 'I am not good at sciences.' "

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

" 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. "

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Random

Phone

" 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.' "

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

" 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

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