I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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I really do know football.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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