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Top 15 Issa Rae Quotes (2025 Update)

Issa Rae Quote: “When I was a teenager, for example, others questioned my blackness because some of the life choices I made weren’t considered to be “black” choices: joining the swim team when it is a known fact that “black people don’t swim,” or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.”

1. “When I was a teenager, for example, others questioned my blackness because some of the life choices I made weren’t considered to be “black” choices: joining the swim team when it is a known fact that “black people don’t swim,” or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.”

Issa Rae Quote: “If a company is only as good as its weakest employee, then what does that say about you and the job you hold? For.”

2. “If a company is only as good as its weakest employee, then what does that say about you and the job you hold? For.”

Issa Rae Quote: “The discussion of representation is one that has been repeated over and over again, and the solution has always been that it’s up to us to support, promote, and create the images that we want to see.”

3. “The discussion of representation is one that has been repeated over and over again, and the solution has always been that it’s up to us to support, promote, and create the images that we want to see.”

Issa Rae Quote: “I’m not the jealous type, but I’m the jealous type.”

4. “I’m not the jealous type, but I’m the jealous type.”

Issa Rae Quote: “The advantages of black hair are infinite.”

5. “The advantages of black hair are infinite.”

Issa Rae Quote: “Food is my destination, my journey, my reward, my friend.”

6. “Food is my destination, my journey, my reward, my friend.”

Issa Rae Quote: “I don’t like being limited. This is my worst nightmare. I want to be able to flex other muscles and see what else I can do.”

7. “I don’t like being limited. This is my worst nightmare. I want to be able to flex other muscles and see what else I can do.”

Issa Rae Quote: “Educated black women are too high maintenance, high strung, and independent – they don’t need men. There is a widening gap between the education of black women and men, which doesn’t leave very many “suitable” suitors. Unfortunately, the higher one’s degree, as a black woman, the lower your chances are of getting married. Add to the con pile the stereotypes of being loud, complicated, and difficult. Black women, your reputation sucks. Asian.”

8. “Educated black women are too high maintenance, high strung, and independent – they don’t need men. There is a widening gap between the education of black women and men, which doesn’t leave very many “suitable” suitors. Unfortunately, the higher one’s degree, as a black woman, the lower your chances are of getting married. Add to the con pile the stereotypes of being loud, complicated, and difficult. Black women, your reputation sucks. Asian.”

Issa Rae Quote: “It all made sense: my shyness, all the times I was dismissed for not being “black enough,” my desire to reframe the images of black film and television, which I started to do when I created a series in college called Dorm Diaries, my inability to dance – these were all symptoms of my Awkward Blackness.”

9. “It all made sense: my shyness, all the times I was dismissed for not being “black enough,” my desire to reframe the images of black film and television, which I started to do when I created a series in college called Dorm Diaries, my inability to dance – these were all symptoms of my Awkward Blackness.”

Issa Rae Quote: “Why don’t people understand that nobody wants to hear what they should have done when something has already happened?”

10. “Why don’t people understand that nobody wants to hear what they should have done when something has already happened?”

Issa Rae Quote: “Don’t misunderstand me; I don’t want to die alone, but spending quality time with myself 60 to 70 percent of the day is my idea of mecca.”

11. “Don’t misunderstand me; I don’t want to die alone, but spending quality time with myself 60 to 70 percent of the day is my idea of mecca.”

Issa Rae Quote: “As Ralph Ellison once posited, we’re invisible to them. We’re simply not on their radar. As long as the people who are in charge aren’t us, things will never change.”

12. “As Ralph Ellison once posited, we’re invisible to them. We’re simply not on their radar. As long as the people who are in charge aren’t us, things will never change.”

Issa Rae Quote: “There are reality shows for gold-diggers while televised Bridezillas and messy infidelities get sky-high ratings. To think that amidst all the infidelity, Americans actually had the nerve to try to get all sanctimonious when the gay marriage debate surfaced. Shut up! My.”

13. “There are reality shows for gold-diggers while televised Bridezillas and messy infidelities get sky-high ratings. To think that amidst all the infidelity, Americans actually had the nerve to try to get all sanctimonious when the gay marriage debate surfaced. Shut up! My.”

Issa Rae Quote: “KEY PHRASES: “I don’t know”; “Really?”; “Where’s the chicken?”; “Cast down your bucket.”

14. “KEY PHRASES: “I don’t know”; “Really?”; “Where’s the chicken?”; “Cast down your bucket.”

Issa Rae Quote: “Then as the decade made way for the new millennium, cable exploded with its own original content and film studios began to obsess over international box office sales. Somewhere along the line, we became unrelatable and invisible to the Hollywood system. Our images and diverse portrayals just weren’t worth the dollars and effort anymore. The images I had grown up with and grown so accustomed to seeing slowly disappeared, and it seemed to happen all at once.”

15. “Then as the decade made way for the new millennium, cable exploded with its own original content and film studios began to obsess over international box office sales. Somewhere along the line, we became unrelatable and invisible to the Hollywood system. Our images and diverse portrayals just weren’t worth the dollars and effort anymore. The images I had grown up with and grown so accustomed to seeing slowly disappeared, and it seemed to happen all at once.”

Issa Rae Quote: “My comfort with food simply outweighed my determination to be a smaller size.”

16. “My comfort with food simply outweighed my determination to be a smaller size.”

Issa Rae Quote: “Everybody wants to be hood, but nobody really wants to be hood. In.”

17. “Everybody wants to be hood, but nobody really wants to be hood. In.”

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