Yvonne Orji

There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.

I would never do something I'm uncomfortable with.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

My actual desire is to be able to comfortably walk out of my house without any makeup on and feel as beautiful as I do when my makeup artist beats my face.

New York is a walking city, so you'll be dressed to the nines, and you'll go out, and you feel more special and more pretty because more people acknowledge you.

I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.

I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'

I remember talking to old-school African American grandpops, and they're just like, 'When I saw my wife, I looked up from across the street, and I said, 'That girl gon' be my wife someday.' And we've been married 45 years.' Like, what? That's all it took?

I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.

I'm grounded in who I am.