I have an equal opportunity womb!

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

I like comedy as a group sport.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

We make patterns, we share moments.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.