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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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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
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Woman
Black
Gay
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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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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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That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.
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If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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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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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 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 think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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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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When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.
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Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything.
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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.
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Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?
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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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I always want to go back and do stand-up I like the freedom.
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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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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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