Quotes by Amanda Seales - Page 2

When I came into stand-up, I found a certain safe space of intellectualism, of camaraderie, of excellence that really has always been natural to me but always felt foreign in the other spaces I've been in.
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Camaraderie
Excellence
Space Always Me
Intellectually
Spaces
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If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working.
Amanda Seales /
Balls
Different Ways
Dropping
Fine
Good Always People
Good People Always
Juggle
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I know some people would be like, 'Why are you responding to these racists on Twitter?' Sometimes it's for the purpose of letting them know they're being watched and that they're going to have to answer for their words.
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Responding
Letting
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In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were 'frontin.'
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Actuality
Imagery
Instance
Needed
Rapper
Meant
Hip
Hop
Present
Spoke
Truly
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Every New Year comes with a list of predictions. Self-predictions, world predictions, how many times Lindsay Lohan will get arrested predictions, etc. I reserve the annual trend for people with genuine psychic ability and/or bloggers.
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New Year
Arrested
Bloggers
Etc
Genuine
Predictions
World People Will
World People New
Annual
How Many Times
Lindsay
Lindsay Lohan
Psychic
Reserve
Trend
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'Smart Funny & Black' came about because I felt that black comedians were being considered as only capable of a certain type of comedy - sort of physical, kind of silly - and I felt like we are not a monolith, and our comedy isn't, either.
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Silly
Comedians
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I've always found inspiration in icons that were really of purpose in their craft or calling. From Bob Marley to Maya Angelou to Malcolm X, inspiration came from seeing how committed they were to their vision and determining it themselves.
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Angelou
Bob
Calling
Committed
Icons
Marley
Craft
Determining
Malcolm
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When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who weren't born into the white guy paradigm of 'funny' don't need a handout. We don't need a PC push. We don't need 'a look.'
Amanda Seales /
Acceptance
Paradigm
Comics
Handout
Pc
Push
Replacement
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Cornrows came back with a vengeance in the early '00s with every dude trying to grow his hair out to get 'braided up.' It was crazy. Girls were getting carpal tunnel in hoods across America trying to make plaits out of 1.5 inches of ungreased hair.
Amanda Seales /
Inches
Vengeance
Dude
Tunnel
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Ladies and dentists will agree: Iverson has one of the best smiles to ever grin. This is uncontested. No argument! And he was very generous with it as well. Whether during a game, press conference, or photoshoot, Iverson was free with his cheesing.
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Generous
Conference
Grin
Ladies
Press Conference
Smiles
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Growing up, dating seemed pretty straightforward: If someone was interested in getting to know you on a romantic level, they approached, exchanged info, and proceeded to communicate with you in a consistent fashion between outings of various natures.
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Dating
Communicate
Consistent
Straightforward
Natures
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Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.
Amanda Seales /
Hindrance
Poetry Music Me
Certain Way
Hosting
Packaged
Something Else
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If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self - which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black woman - then I felt like it's not worth doing it if I can't do it the most organic way possible. Which is why I left the music business.
Amanda Seales /
Music Business
Organic
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For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No, I'm still a black comic, and there are black people who want to hear my type of black comedy, but that space hasn't been built out for us.
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Black Comedy
Silly
Space Black People
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Wokeness, for what it's worth, is a buzzword that a lot of people are not truly understanding the depth of. I think sometimes things work their way into the zeitgeist, and they lose their weight. And wokeness is one of those words that has reached that point.
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Depth
Understanding
Weight
Zeitgeist
Words
Lot
Work Lose People
Lose
Point
Reached
Truly
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My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.
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Experience
Black
Blackness
Different
High School
Identity
Mother
Roots
School
Started
Actor
American
High
Got
Hanging
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Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.
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Contact
Sight
Episode
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In music, you ain't really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to add a little extra to your routine, but if you're not funny, no one's really rocking with you - and if you're a black woman, you better be hilarious. As usual, we always have to do the most.
Amanda Seales /
Cute
Hilarious
Add
Routine
Usual
Funny Music Always
Extra
Rocking
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I speak from a black woman's perspective, and that's a specific perspective, but sometimes there are things I want to be understood by folks who may not have an entryway into that concept, so I have to think about how I can open the space to bring those people in. And that does require balance.
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Require
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I definitely am very secure with my body and my likes and dislikes and the imperfections that some might call flaws. I'm like, 'Those are my thighs; it's just what it is.' I think a lot of that has to do also with... women being a lot more vocal about the fact that, you know, being flawless is false.
Amanda Seales /
Flawless
Likes
Secure
Thighs
Vocal
Dislikes
False
Imperfections
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'Smart Funny and Black' is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We have two contestants that we call 'blacksperts.' They come on stage and compete in games that I've created that test their knowledge of black culture, black history, and the black experience.
Amanda Seales /
Black History
Contestants
Pop Culture
Compete
Game Show
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The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are honest and true about things, it helps things to make sense, and it cuts out a lot of the fat that gets in the way and causes for the misunderstandings that I believe lead to violence and... dysfunction, etc.
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Causes
Dysfunction
Etc
Truth Believe I Believe
Fat
Cuts
Misunderstandings
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I've been grinding a really long time, and I've been broke for a lot of years. I may not have looked like it because, if you're fly, you don't need a dollar - you just need charisma. But I was riding hope as currency for a very long time. I feel like now, more than ever, I'm in my purpose, and comedy is the foundation of that.
Amanda Seales /
Broke
Charisma
Currency
Foundation
Riding
Time Hope Long
Dollar
Fly
Grinding
Really Long Time
Very Long Time
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I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do and needed to get busy doing that work. I really do believe that I'm here for a bigger purpose, and I want to be a role model and speak for the black community and black women specifically. Humor was the way it felt most organic and effective for me.
Amanda Seales /
Amanda
Black Community
Busy
Music Industry
Work Women Music
Diva
Effective
Organic
Role Model
Specifically
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