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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

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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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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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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When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.
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I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
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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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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' - I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
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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'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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