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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?

Wanda Sykes

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Writer
Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
Wanda Yvette Sykes-Hall
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Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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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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Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?
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My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
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My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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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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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 guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.
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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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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.
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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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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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