I just want a look so classic that I don't get made fun of for it later!

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

To live today well and to avoid tomorrow's trouble, past should not be forgotten.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

I pitch with emotion. I don't know any other way.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.

How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.