Quotes About Identity

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.

Yeah, I definitely tend towards dry, sarcastic British humor. I actually aspire to be British - I'm pasty white as well.

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.

I have met a lot of athletes who were on the top of their sport, and then sat around and did nothing. They just didn't know what to do.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't.

A star is different, and an actor is different. But there is an actor in every star, and they, too, look for challenging roles to satisfy the actor in them.

I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'

I felt like I couldn't fully be myself and accepted in my family, so I would lock myself in my room on a Saturday night and watch 'Saturday Night Live,' and that was, like, the best thing that ever happened to me.

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

Hormone blockers changed and saved my life.

Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

'Scandal' is soooo Hollywood. It's not me.

When Scandal had a top 20 video, no one knew what I looked like. I had all this stuff on me.

I'm scared to see myself in 3D.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

I'm not your cookie-cutter athlete, and that scares people. People don't know how to take that.