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" You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley. "

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" I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy. "

" As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key. "

" A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny. "

" I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny. "

" I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland. "

" After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!' "

" We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people. "

" My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving. "

" I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy. "

" It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role. "

" It's so much easier when you're a size two or three to just slip on anything. But a big girl, sometimes you've got to strap some stuff down! "

" I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me. "

" It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother. "

" Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day. "

" I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty. "

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" Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh. "

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" Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it. "

" Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is. "

" I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.' "