I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.