Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
I tell jokes, chat with people, and make stuff.
I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.
I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.
My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.
We were poor. My mother got our clothes out of the free box at the church, you know? So much of when you're a kid is about relating about what you watch on TV. And who's got these cooler shoes, and 'Let's trade lunches.' And I was just like, 'I don't have a television. I have a rock and a piece of tofu.'
Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.
But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.
I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies.
I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I've had to say, 'No, I grew up poor.' And then I was like, 'Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that's authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?' I mean, it's ridiculous.
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything's totally colorblind.
So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.
I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.
I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
My hands are delicate and elegant, thank you very much. They're well-kept; my nails are clean.