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

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."

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here.

Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

All men are brothers and each man is free.