Amanda Seales

I'm a nerd.

— Amanda Seales

I love cars.

— Amanda Seales

Drake ain't fake.

— Amanda Seales

I'm an artist through and through.

— Amanda Seales

I'm not hostile. I'm passionate.

— Amanda Seales

My goal is to just have options.

— Amanda Seales

I am black, and I loved 'Django.'

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

My hair changes with my emotions... and my purpose for the day.

— Amanda Seales

The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.

— Amanda Seales

As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been.

— Amanda Seales

I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

I want to see my career evolve into limitlessness.

— 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

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…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

In music, you ain't really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to…

— 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

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

— Amanda Seales

Growing up, dating seemed pretty straightforward: If someone was interested in getting to know you on a romantic level, they approached, exchanged…

— Amanda Seales

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

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 am from Florida, so I didn't 'grow up' on Wu-Tang.

— Amanda Seales

I want to be able to do what I want to do and have people care about it.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

— Amanda Seales

Anytime I don't have to wear a bra is a good day.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales

I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Amanda Seales