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If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
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Television Producer
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Portsmouth
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I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.
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I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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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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With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.
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Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.
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Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'
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