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

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.

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.

I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.

Nowhere on Earth was stupidity prized anymore.

Every human, is capable of animalistic behavior. But for God, human abode will be a wild desert with untamed animals

Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

I hate it when people are wrongly convicted.