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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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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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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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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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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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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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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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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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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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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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When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.
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My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
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That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.
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If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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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 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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