Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it’s like there’s this brother- or sisterhood, where we’re real folks. – Loni Love
I’ll see something, and I’ll go, ‘Oh, wow, that’s interesting,’ because really, comedy comes from the truth. – Loni Love
Mom was a nurse’s aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived. – Loni Love
Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could’ve done differently, see what you could’ve said. – Loni Love
People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it’s because we’re not using the people that are trying to be entertainers – use more of them. – Loni Love
The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed. – Loni Love
Really, it hasn’t changed for female comics; it’s still hard for females to really enter the game. – Loni Love
That’s the one thing I have to say to females. If you don’t have a certain look, or if you look a certain way, they won’t accept you. – Loni Love
What we’re trying to do is take these words and soften them. I’m an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act. – Loni Love
‘SNL’ ain’t been relevant since Jim Belushi. It’s on every week; it’s not funny. They need to find some black women to put on there to make it funny. – Loni Love
Black women know that we’ve got to take care of it – so we take care of it. It’s just embedded in us. – Loni Love
One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, ‘Please save someone else’s job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me – and just lay me off.’ I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic. – Loni Love
It’s been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, ‘Oh she just popped up on the scene,’ but I’ve been working on this for some time. – Loni Love
I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people. – Loni Love
If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter. – Loni Love
When you’re a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees. – Loni Love
With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That’s what I like to talk about. – Loni Love
If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20? – Loni Love
