I like comedy as a group sport.

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!'

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.

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

Masters today, were Starters Yesterday, so begin now.

Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.

We all do fade as a leaf.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

The intellect must be different from the soul.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.