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" Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day. "

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" I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.' "

" I have a show called 'First Gen' that David Oyelowo is executive producing. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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? "

" '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. "

" 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 believe in the equal and opposite: If I exist, there is an equal and opposite version of me, and so however long I have to wait, and wherever he happens to be, we'll find it. Sometimes it's like, 'Jesus, where he at?' "

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

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" Black girls can make the best girlfriends. "

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

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" I've been fortunate that the men I surround myself with in the comedy world are really decent people: men who are very aware, who are very respectful, and understand their place and maybe even some of their privilege. "

" 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.' "

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

" I don't look at God as some boring dude in the sky that tells me what to do all day. I legitimately be like, 'Yo, you know what, G, that's crazy how that happened. That's dope. You know, you the real MVP.' "