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Men don't hear women.

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
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Wanda Yvette Sykes
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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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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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Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.
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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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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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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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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
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I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.
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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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With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.
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When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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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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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 here today because I hated everything else.
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Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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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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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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