I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.
I say all the time that when you first meet me, you know three things right off the bat: I'm Nigerian, I love to laugh, and I love Jesus.
I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard.
I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.
I like things to happen organically.
I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my masters.
Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?
For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'
I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.
I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.
I don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends.
Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.
Some people just don't subscribe to labels.
I used to work in public health, and the issues were sustainability, how the funds were being delineated, and if the funds were actually helping the people we think they're helping.
To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me.
