Nigerian - Actress | December 2, 1983 -
If you're a woman of colour and you have any level of education, you have to adapt.
Yvonne Orji
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I was looking around this room, this sea of industry folk. If I had have worn black and white, somebody would have asked me to get them a cocktail; the only other people of colour there were servers.
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I don't know how often white people look around and think, 'Wow, there's really a lot of white people here; we should fix that.' But I know black people often look around and think, 'Wow, I'm the only one here - why?'
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There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time.
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I was supposed to be the doctor in my family.
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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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There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.
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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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If I'm home on Wednesdays, I go to Bible study. I get my God time in, definitely.
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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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I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names.
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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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