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

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

— Amanda Seales

I know some people would be like, 'Why are you responding to these racists on Twitter?' Sometimes it's for the purpose of…

— Amanda Seales

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

— 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.…

— Amanda Seales

For my web series 'Get Your Life,' I wrote that and produced it and starred in it so that I could have…

— Amanda Seales

When my hair is picked out, my whole aura is picked out, like, 'See this, see me.'

— Amanda Seales

Auditioning for people you know is way more stressful than auditioning for people you don't know. And you have to pretend that…

— Amanda Seales

I don't do things that I'm not good at.

— 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

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

— Amanda Seales

Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It…

— 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

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

— Amanda Seales

I want to see my career evolve into limitlessness.

— Amanda Seales

For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No,…

— Amanda Seales

I'm a nerd.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

I'm not hostile. I'm passionate.

— 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

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

— 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…

— Amanda Seales

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main…

— 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