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" You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants. She wants you to treat her like a lady if you want her to sit up there and put on all the lingerie! "

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" What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act. "

Loni Love

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African-American

Words

" When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing. "

Loni Love

Mean

Connected

" I am the funny, crazy person. "

" 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. "

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

Loni Love

Women

Know

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

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

Loni Love

Truth

Comedy

" Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore. "

" I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people. "

" We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love. "

" 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 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. "

Loni Love

Time

Funny

" 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. "

" Whatever you're destined to do, you will be. "

" Anyone driving a 1992 Cutlass, take it back, because I built it. "

" Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game. "

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

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

" One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic. "

" People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them. "

Loni Love

Off

People

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

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

" I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life. "

" Life is funny, and that's why I celebrate it in my shows. "

" Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street! "

" I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person. "

" The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration. "

Loni Love

Look

Inspiration

" Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said. "

" It's always good to laugh. "

" Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other. "

Loni Love

Love