Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

Confidence comes from creating something and knowing what I'm supposed to be doing and feeling like I'm good at what I'm supposed to be doing.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

It's annoying when people confuse you with the character.

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.

I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal

Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well, " the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...

Words are living things.

Life, is energy. It is the energy that makes your heart beat and makes you breathe, that causes the cells of your body to automatically grow and reproduce the moment you are conceived!

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.