I’ve been grinding a really long time, and I’ve been broke for a lot of years. I may not have looked like it because, if you’re fly, you don’t need a dollar – you just need charisma. But I was riding hope as currency for a very long time. I feel like now, more than ever, I’m in my purpose, and comedy is the foundation of that. Amanda Seales Read Quote
I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do and needed to get busy doing that work. I really do believe that I’m here for a bigger purpose, and I want to be a role model and speak for the black community and black women specifically. Humor was the way it felt most organic and effective for me. Amanda Seales Read Quote
In music, you ain’t really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to add a little extra to your routine, but if you’re not funny, no one’s really rocking with you – and if you’re a black woman, you better be hilarious. As usual, we always have to do the most. Amanda Seales Read Quote
When people agree with you, they’ll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don’t agree with you, that’s when they come for your whole neck. Amanda Seales Read Quote
I can’t even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters. Amanda Seales Read Quote
America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country’s Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote. Amanda Seales Read Quote
To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best – and just a good ol’ fashioned front at its truth. Amanda Seales Read Quote
I’m constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the ‘You’re pretty, you can’t be funny’ stigma. Amanda Seales Read Quote
