I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

I like comedy as a group sport.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The part is greater than its role in the whole.

From 1991 till the present, Iraq sovereignty has been trampled by the United States.