I'm grounded in who I am.

I want to own a comedy club.

I just love new, beautiful music.

I like things to happen organically.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

Black girls can make the best girlfriends.

Some people just don't subscribe to labels.

I love a dark brown blush, like brown on brown.

I would never do something I'm uncomfortable with.

I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

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

We didn't grow up with TV as a viable means of supporting yourself.

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

Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.

I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names.

I have a show called 'First Gen' that David Oyelowo is executive producing.

I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.

I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.

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

If you're a woman of colour and you have any level of education, you have to adapt.

My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all.

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

On a man, I love Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille. But I wear Orchid Soleil - I love a sweet smell.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

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

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

I don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends.

I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.

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

For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.

A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.

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

My faith has really been the biggest asset of my career. It has grounded me and let me focus on what's important.

A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.'

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

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

My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be in life.

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

There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

I don't know who I'll end up with, but whoever he is must have a strong religious commitment, must be someone who loves God.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

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?

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.

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.

There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

I say all the time that when you first meet me, you know three things right off the bat: I'm Nigerian, I love to laugh, and I love Jesus.

As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.'

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