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."

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.

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 had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already.

There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday

My own style is one of not much effort.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.