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With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

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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
Wanda Yvette Sykes-Hall
Black
Whole
Watermelon
Relax
Dance
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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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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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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 watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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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 like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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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'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 love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
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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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I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.
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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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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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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 hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.
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