The best advice I can give
“On [Girl Code’s Twitter], girls ask us stuff like, ‘How do I know he likes me?’ A lot of times my answers are just, ‘Worry about yourself.’ If you like yourself, other people will like you. Just do you. Love is about focusing on yourself so that you can open your heart and let others love you. I think focusing on loving yourself is what [my work is] about.”
When you should break up with someone
“If you think about it, everyone already knows the answers. People just ask questions to validate the wrong answer that they want to hear. It’s like, ‘My boyfriend yells at me. Do you think I should break up with him?’ You know you should. You’re just waiting for someone to say, ‘He’ll change.’ Really? Don’t do that to yourself. You have to say, ‘I don’t need you.’”
Don’t get ahead of yourself
“I had a really big crush on this guy named George. Whenever I saw him, my heart would start beating, and then I would hide. Later, I got to know him, and I realized he wasn’t for me. I didn’t even know him before I started acting like a crazy person.”
Why love makes for great comedy
“I think it’s because everyone has felt love. Everyone has felt that romantic friendship to somebody. And, everyone has fucked it up. No one in the history of people has had one perfect relationship. That’s why most TV shows are about finding love. Anything and everything can go wrong. If you have a perfect relationship, you need to ask yourself, ‘What’s happening?’”
I draw upon my own life
“Everything I do is based on my life. I did this diversity showcase where I wrote sketches, and the director asked, ‘How will this show you as a big, black woman?’ I was like, ‘I think when I walk on stage, they’re all going to know. It’s not a secret that I’m big and black.’”