Yvonne Orji Quotes

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Yvonne Orji, is quoted 85 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Nigerian, Grounded, African and Christianity.

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Some people just don't subscribe to labels.
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I love a dark brown blush, like brown on brown.
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Blush
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I would never do something I'm uncomfortable with.
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Uncomfortable
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I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.
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Bullied

Thick

Accent

Nigerian
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There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.
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Narrative
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Auto-pay is not for convenience; it's for the gainfully employed.
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Convenience

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

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

Wherewithal
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Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway.
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Work Hard
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As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.
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Authentic Self

Authentic

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

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

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

Executive

Gen

Producing
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I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.
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Catholic
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I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.
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Real Life

Brothers

Older

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

Nigerians

Saying

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

Adapt
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My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all.
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Instilled
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Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?
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Pill

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

Tobacco

Ford
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Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.
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Lessons
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By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.
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Time School High School

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

Advancing
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I don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends.
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Sex And The City
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I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.
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Diligent

Life Believe Yourself

Life Believe I Believe

Grand

Scheme

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

Virginity

Limit

Options

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

Stuck
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A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.
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Christianity
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Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it.
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Stuck

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

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

Therapy

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

Doctor Me Parents

Doctor Me Lawyer

African

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

Nigeria

Pageant

Miss

Entered

Existed

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

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

Emcee

Familiar

Host

Insecure

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

Different Types

Portrayed

Types

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

Day Bad Sometimes

Breath

Everybody Else

Stinks
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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?
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Embody

Women Men Black

Women And Men
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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.
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Friendship

Insecure

Sea
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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.
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Burden

Mess

Always Look People

Look Bad People

Speaks
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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.
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Calling

Long Distance

Mother Your Me

Me Random People
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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.
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Love Time Me

Bat

Nigerian
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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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Models

Role Models

Immigrant
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