Top 50 Jessica Williams Quotes

I’m not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. It would make me crack.

Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: ‘Parks and Recreation.’ ‘Veep’s’ incredible. I love ‘Girls.’

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it’s a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

There are a lot of podcasters that are females of color. And I think that we should be allowed to tell a very specific kind of story. And if you don’t like it, you don’t like it. But if you do, enjoy the tea! Sip that tea.

There’s such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There’s an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I’m like, ‘This is me. I’m black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.’ I just feel it’s my being.

It’s cool to see a woman be like, ‘This is what I want – this is what I don’t want.’ It’s good to see someone making choices for themselves.

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

I’m a young correspondent, so sometimes I’m just young. Sometimes I’m just straightforward.

Some days I’ll be like, ‘I didn’t do anything great today,’ and I’ll be bummed. And some days I’ll wake up, and I’m like, ‘I am the dopest woman to exist on Earth’.

I was always told that I acted too white. I was always told that I was going to date a white guy – which, in fairness, was true: I do have a white boyfriend. So they weren’t entirely wrong, but all of those things were really damaging.

I don’t know how to cook. I work a lot. So, for me, then, it’s important to find a man who can cook. Who will make the house a home more than I can.

My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it’s all very low maintenance. I feel like I can get up and go and get out of the house. I just don’t have it in me to get my hair done all the time.

For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.

I used to think men were these idiots who just yelled at you on the street. But, part of my maturing was realizing that not all men are evil or monsters.

I check Facebook to see how everybody from high school’s doing. I go on Reddit to see what my weirdos are talking about. Then I go on Tumblr to see what my feminists are talking about.

Sometimes, you feel like, ‘Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?’ Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.

I grew up hearing, ‘You’re pretty for a black girl,’ ‘You speak well for a black girl…’ I was really bookish. I was reading all of the time. I had big glasses.

Oh, I’m obsessed with the Kardashians. Not the way that I think a 13- or 14-year-old girl would be, but I find them fascinating. They are so rich. They are also, at the end of the day, women of color.

The popularity of ‘2 Dope Queens’ just showed there was like a hunger for new stories because we have alternative comics on our show that wouldn’t normally be featured on, like, a white guy’s comedy show.

Every day when I wake up, I check Instagram.

I feel like, all things aside, it’s a really great time to be a woman. And I don’t want to hear stories from, like, white dudes anymore. Like, not really. I want to hear stories from women.

I feel like now is great time for a rom-com because the genre is sort of being opened up to being told by people that look different from each other or who have different orientations.

I enjoy romantic comedies in general. I like them when they’re bad, I like when they’re good.

Some days, I do feel that pressure of, ‘What do I mean as a black woman? What am I representing?’ It honestly just gives me anxiety.

As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, ‘Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I’m a woman, or sometimes people aren’t going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.’

I loved doing ‘Frisky Business.’ I didn’t come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

The Kardashians are walking clickbait – but let’s look closer. Do Kim and Kanye affect how society feels about interracial relationships and blended families?

‘Sex and the City’ didn’t change the show because it was an international sensation. They kept it in New York.

The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that’s in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.

I really like when different stories are represented, it’s not just the same kind of person, and when there’s humor in it, and there’s relationships.

My parents have always been very supportive.

As far as diversity’s concerned, there’s me, there’s Al Madrigal, there’s Aasif Mandvi. But I’m not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

With ‘2 Dope Queens,’ we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being women of color and talking about our personal experience. Also, we give an opportunity to elevate voices for many different people that otherwise would not get such a large platform.

Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical.

Don’t try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They’re not going to change.

Height has been very, very central to the development of my personality.

I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That’s what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got ‘The Daily Show’, I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

I don’t really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

That’s how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.

I’m a tomboy, but I really love doing my makeup – I find it relaxing and grounding. With ‘The Daily Show,’ it was easier for me to do my own makeup. In the beginning, I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials. You find a beauty blogger who has your skin tone, and pretty much everything they use will look good on you.

I love it when women are like, ‘You guys sound like me and my best friend!’

I’m six feet tall. No one realizes that because on ‘The Daily Show’ I’m usually sitting.

When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married.

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but ‘The Daily Show’ was like, ‘Nah, it’s an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.’

I always feel like I’m warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness – which is the opposite of whiteness.

I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I’m a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.