Quotes from Kym Whitley

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.

If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.

I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.

I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.

Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.

After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!'

I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland.

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.

You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.

So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy.

It's so much easier when you're a size two or three to just slip on anything. But a big girl, sometimes you've got to strap some stuff down!

Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.