I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.