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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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Portsmouth
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I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay.
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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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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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But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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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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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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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.
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You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I had top-secret clearance and everything. I was working on a couple of projects that would keep me involved in Desert Storm. I was in the mix, which is scary.
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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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Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, Listen, you're not pregnant. I said, Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit.
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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.
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What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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I'm really funny now.
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Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.
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