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" To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me. "

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

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

" I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity. "

" Black girls can make the best girlfriends. "

" I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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" When something is not great, I'm not going to eat it. It's not enough to just get full. It's like, how does this make you feel? "

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" Any show that speaks to people of color feels the burden to never mess up, never make its characters look bad - to always get it right. "