Amanda Seales

I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.

— Amanda Seales

The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that…

— Amanda Seales

From the beginning with 'So Far Gone,' Drake's work has been to find a way to deftly balance his singing and his…

— Amanda Seales

I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.

— Amanda Seales

I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is…

— Amanda Seales

Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and…

— Amanda Seales

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep…

— Amanda Seales

I used to work at Sirius. And when I got my job at Sirius, I was only 21. It was my first…

— Amanda Seales

Every New Year comes with a list of predictions. Self-predictions, world predictions, how many times Lindsay Lohan will get arrested predictions, etc.…

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I am all at once in awe and in confusion at some of the folks I encounter during fashion week, consistently causing…

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I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do…

— Amanda Seales

'Smart Funny and Black' is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We…

— Amanda Seales

Ladies and dentists will agree: Iverson has one of the best smiles to ever grin. This is uncontested. No argument! And he…

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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,…

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If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls,…

— Amanda Seales

In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a…

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My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has…

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

— Amanda Seales

My brain doesn't work in a typical linear fashion: my brain is vibrant and fast and bright and on 10,000 all the time.

— Amanda Seales

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

— Amanda Seales

Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing.

— Amanda Seales

When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when…

— Amanda Seales

In most cases, a year older is a good thing. More wisdom, more experience, and less damns given.

— Amanda Seales

I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of…

— Amanda Seales

America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could…

— Amanda Seales

I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice…

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

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…

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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…

— Amanda Seales

Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight…

— Amanda Seales

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance.…

— Amanda Seales

When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who…

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My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen…

— Amanda Seales

I definitely am very secure with my body and my likes and dislikes and the imperfections that some might call flaws. I'm…

— Amanda Seales

For a long time, I didn't have a balance in terms of my worth and my market value; I was just a…

— Amanda Seales

If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self - which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black…

— Amanda Seales

When I came into stand-up, I found a certain safe space of intellectualism, of camaraderie, of excellence that really has always been…

— Amanda Seales

The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are…

— Amanda Seales