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When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

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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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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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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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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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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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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There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.
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I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.
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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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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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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
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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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That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.
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I'm always thinking of stuff I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'
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To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.
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We got to stop doing that, ladies. You know, men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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