Amanda Seales Quotes

Amanda Seales

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 1, 1981

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

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My mom is an incredibly direct person, and I like things to make sense.

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I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

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I've been grinding a really long time, and I've been broke for a lot of years. I may not have looked like it because, if you're fly, you don't need a dollar - you just need charisma. But I was riding hope as currency for a very long time. I feel like now, more than ever, I'm in my purpose, and comedy is the foundation of that.

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Growing up, dating seemed pretty straightforward: If someone was interested in getting to know you on a romantic level, they approached, exchanged info, and proceeded to communicate with you in a consistent fashion between outings of various natures.

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Ideally, we date the folks who are dating for the same reason we are.

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I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.

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Whether you agree with Trump or not, you can't deny he looks like a piece of pizza with the cheese off. It's just what it is.

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You're flawless when you embrace the things about you that you don't necessarily like, but you own them because they're yours.

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I look to icons like George Carlin, Chris Rock, and Richard Pryor on how to present these concepts of social change and subversiveness to an audience in a way that's palatable.

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I am black, and I loved 'Django.'

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Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

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The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

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In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were 'frontin.'

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My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something, and '36 Chambers' was one of them. It was on from then.

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I'm not hostile. I'm passionate.

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I used to work at Sirius. And when I got my job at Sirius, I was only 21. It was my first job out of college. And when I think back to what 21 was, though, you're an idiot.

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I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.

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As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.

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Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.

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