I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. It would make me crack. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says,… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I feel like now is great time for a rom-com because the genre is sort of being opened up to being told… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing, 'You're pretty for a black girl,' 'You speak well for a black girl...' I was really bookish. I… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I feel like, all things aside, it's a really great time to be a woman. And I don't want to hear stories… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized,… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I have never been a 'hair person.' Growing up, my mom and my sister, who loved to get their hair done, would… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I feel like acting is sort of like that: You're getting so many 'no's all the time. It's just a bunch of… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I feel like they have such… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. And some days I'll wake up, and I'm like,… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
'The Daily Show' was like my family. We had dogs in the office every day, all day. It was just such a warm, beautiful,… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I really like when different stories are represented, it's not just the same kind of person, and when there's humor in it, and there's… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show',… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
