I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

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.

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

I don't believe in death.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.