Leslie Jones' quotes on diversity, success and working hard will fire you up
, which is losing one of its best and brightest stars next season.has revealed that she will not be returning to the iconic sketch comedy show. The comedian joinedin 2014 as a writer and quickly became one of its most hilarious cast members, most memorably as a guest host on the long-running segment ‘Weekend Update’.
Jones, you will be missed. Especially by audience members who craved seeing a black woman on the series, which has a poor history of employing women of colour. But we know that Jones will go onto bigger and better things in her career and we can’t wait to see what she does next.For now, lets celebrate Jones’Leslie Jones on people who say that black women don’t want to be comedians
“There’s motherfuckin’ three bitches I can call right now, goddammit, that will fill that spot. Just because you don’t know them, that don’t mean that they don’t fucking exist. That’s like saying Italy does not exist. Motherfucker, yes, it does. I’ve been there.” –“I’m glad this whole success thing is happening now. I can’t even imagine a twenty-three-year-old Leslie in this position. They would have kicked me off the set after two days. I would have fucked half the dudes in the crew.
“If I sat around and waited for somebody to tell me that I was great and to keep going, I wouldn’t be doing this. Everybody was telling me to sit my ass down. Everybody was telling me to get a real job. Everybody was asking me, “What are you doing? You’re ruining your life. You’re embarrassing your family.” That’s all I got. So you can’t listen to that. You have to listen to yourself.” –
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