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Drake ain't fake.
My goal is to just have options.
I'm not hostile. I'm passionate.
I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'
Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.
Anytime I don't have to wear a bra is a good day.
I am from Florida, so I didn't 'grow up' on Wu-Tang.
The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.
I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.
My hair changes with my emotions... and my purpose for the day.
I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.
Ideally, we date the folks who are dating for the same reason we are.
My mom is an incredibly direct person, and I like things to make sense.
I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.
When my hair is picked out, my whole aura is picked out, like, 'See this, see me.'
I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.
I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.
I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.
I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.
In most cases, a year older is a good thing. More wisdom, more experience, and less damns given.
I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.
I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.
My brain doesn't work in a typical linear fashion: my brain is vibrant and fast and bright and on 10,000 all the time.
My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up a space.
From the beginning with 'So Far Gone,' Drake's work has been to find a way to deftly balance his singing and his rapping.
Whether you agree with Trump or not, you can't deny he looks like a piece of pizza with the cheese off. It's just what it is.
You're flawless when you embrace the things about you that you don't necessarily like, but you own them because they're yours.
I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.
My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.
Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing.
As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.
When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.
To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.
As an artist, it's incredible to see folks see you and then be able to give that back and to be able to send two girls to a Black Girls Empowerment camp.
I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is such an integral part of our existence.
I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.
I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.
I feel like I have a unique voice that's true and authentic, and we need more of that. If I can inspire more of that, I need to do that in as many places as possible.
Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and I'm able to support myself and my mom and my cat comfortably.
I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.
I used to work at Sirius. And when I got my job at Sirius, I was only 21. It was my first job out of college. And when I think back to what 21 was, though, you're an idiot.
For my web series 'Get Your Life,' I wrote that and produced it and starred in it so that I could have a body of work that represents my voice as a writer and as a performer.
America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.
For a long time, I didn't have a balance in terms of my worth and my market value; I was just a very talented person who hadn't done any work that truly demonstrated my talent.
I look to icons like George Carlin, Chris Rock, and Richard Pryor on how to present these concepts of social change and subversiveness to an audience in a way that's palatable.
Auditioning for people you know is way more stressful than auditioning for people you don't know. And you have to pretend that you don't know because they're just staring at you.
Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It was never conscious, but it was more so my organic way of thinking about things.
My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something, and '36 Chambers' was one of them. It was on from then.
I am all at once in awe and in confusion at some of the folks I encounter during fashion week, consistently causing me to mutter to myself or whoever's in earshot, 'Is that really necessary?'