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- Height5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)
- Jo-Issa Rae Diop, credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, producer, and comedian. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl. Since 2011, Rae has continued to develop her YouTube channel, which features various short films, web series, and other content created by black people.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseLouis Diame(July 2021 - present)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsAbdoulaye Diop
- Her toothy grin.
- Graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a major in African and African-American Studies.
- Her father, Abdoulaye Diop, is a doctor from Senegal and her mother, Delyna Diop (née Hayward), is an educator, who is African-American, from Louisiana.
- She grew up in Potomac, Maryland, and Los Angeles, California; and spent a short period in Dakar, Senegal.
- She first began writing and acting while in college.
- Received the "Vanguard Award" at the 10th annual Essence Black Women In Hollywood event, February, 2017.
- I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be done, then I push harder.
- The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.
- I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.
- It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.
- You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.
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