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Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.
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white criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up I like the freedom.
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But I understand that relationship I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.
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People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.
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Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.
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Whatever I talk about is what I'm interested in at the time. Politics are big with me. But right now being a mom is taking up most of my time... My act is more family-oriented than it is about politics.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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