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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.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
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Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
Wanda Yvette Sykes-Hall
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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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I'm really funny now.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. 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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Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.
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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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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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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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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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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
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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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You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.
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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 really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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