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Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
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Portsmouth
Virginia
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Wanda Yvette Sykes
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Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.
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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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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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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 hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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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'm really funny now.
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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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Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.
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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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I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.
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Whatever I talk about is what I'm interested in at the time. Politics are big with me. But right now being a mom is taking up most of my time... My act is more family-oriented than it is about politics.
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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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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 enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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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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Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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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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