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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
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Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
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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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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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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 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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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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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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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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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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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'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.
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