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Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake. Amanda Seales

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I look to icons like George Carlin, Chris Rock, and Richard Pryor on how to present these concepts of social change and subversiveness to an audience in a way that's palatable. Amanda Seales

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience. Amanda Seales

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My mom is an incredibly direct person, and I like things to make sense. Amanda Seales

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I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term. Amanda Seales

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I want to be able to do what I want to do and have people care about it. Amanda Seales

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I speak from a black woman's perspective, and that's a specific perspective, but sometimes there are things I want to be understood by folks who may not have an entryway into that concept, so I have to think about how I can open the space to bring those people in. And that does require balance. Amanda Seales

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Wokeness, for what it's worth, is a buzzword that a lot of people are not truly understanding the depth of. I think sometimes things work their way into the zeitgeist, and they lose their weight. And wokeness is one of those words that has reached that point. Amanda Seales

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Ideally, we date the folks who are dating for the same reason we are. Amanda Seales

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I don't do things that I'm not good at. Amanda Seales

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If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working. Amanda Seales

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For a long time, I didn't have a balance in terms of my worth and my market value; I was just a very talented person who hadn't done any work that truly demonstrated my talent. Amanda Seales

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As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been. Amanda Seales

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I'm not hostile. I'm passionate. Amanda Seales

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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

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When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who weren't born into the white guy paradigm of 'funny' don't need a handout. We don't need a PC push. We don't need 'a look.' Amanda Seales

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I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows. Amanda Seales

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I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows. Amanda Seales

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My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience. Amanda Seales

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