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Yvonne Orji

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There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way. - Yvonne Orji
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Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn. - Yvonne Orji
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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. - Yvonne Orji
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I was looking around this room, this sea of industry folk. If I had have worn black and white, somebody would have asked me to get them a cocktail; the only other people of colour there were servers. - Yvonne Orji
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High school is really when I came into my own. - Yvonne Orji
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Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway. - Yvonne Orji
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'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt. - Yvonne Orji
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As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.' - Yvonne Orji
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I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life. - Yvonne Orji
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I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it just makes it so much easier to release control, cuz at the end of the day, if He brought me to it, He's gonna have to bring me through it. - Yvonne Orji
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I don't look at God as some boring dude in the sky that tells me what to do all day. I legitimately be like, 'Yo, you know what, G, that's crazy how that happened. That's dope. You know, you the real MVP.' - Yvonne Orji
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Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with. - Yvonne Orji
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I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my masters. - Yvonne Orji
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I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options. - Yvonne Orji
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I had my masters in public health, and the goal was to be a doctor, and organic chemistry let me know that that was not going to happen, as did my fear of blood. - Yvonne Orji
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A healthy smile has always been important to me. - Yvonne Orji
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I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent. - Yvonne Orji
#Accent
#Because
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#Thick
I grew up in a place called Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the youngest of four. What I remember most about Nigeria was the ease. I would play by the pool, have fun with friends. - Yvonne Orji
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You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls. - Yvonne Orji
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating. - Yvonne Orji
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#Dating
#Enough
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