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" They're smart in Orange County. Smart and rich - just how I like 'em. "

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" My material reaches everyone. "

" I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation. "

" I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it. "

" Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us. "

" I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah. "

" Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things. "

" When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees. "

" As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road. "

" I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it. "

" I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships. "

" I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there. "

" That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh. "

" I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth. "

" One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television. "

" I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting. "

" I don't have a lot of time for television because I am making it, so it's really hard for me to sit down. But when I do get a chance, I try to catch up on 'Scandal,' 'Empire' and 'black-ish.' "

" I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that? "

" People say they get a warmness from me. "

" What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts. "

" It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say. "

" If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20? "

" I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love. "

" I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home. "

" With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about. "

" I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different. "

" Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through. "

" I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view. "

" I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married. "

" I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding. "

" I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy. "