Nigerian - Actress | December 2, 1983 -
I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'
Yvonne Orji
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People are surprised I do comedy! And I'm like, 'Guys, that's all I have been doing. For, like, forever.'
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As strong as we are, we have our moments. My mama is an African woman who had four kids and was a nurse for 25 years, and she had her moments. I've seen her cry.
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I believe in the equal and opposite: If I exist, there is an equal and opposite version of me, and so however long I have to wait, and wherever he happens to be, we'll find it. Sometimes it's like, 'Jesus, where he at?'
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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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When something is not great, I'm not going to eat it. It's not enough to just get full. It's like, how does this make you feel?
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For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.
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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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I want to own a comedy club.
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I don't look at God as some boring dude in the sky that tells me what to do all day. I legitimately be like, 'Yo, you know what, G, that's crazy how that happened. That's dope. You know, you the real MVP.'
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I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.
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When it comes to black female comedians, it's like, if you're not overweight, are you funny? There's rules, like, you can't be skinny and pretty and funny. I'm all three, sorry to break it to you.
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