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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh. — Wanda Sykes

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

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up. — Wanda Sykes

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too. — Wanda Sykes

When I am outside at night by myself every person turns into a pedophile. So I tend to walk a little faster than usual and then I sprint. — Wanda Sykes

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. — Wanda Sykes

I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad! — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over. — Wanda Sykes

Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail. — Wanda Sykes

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people. — Wanda Sykes

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs. — Wanda Sykes

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance. — Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots. — Wanda Sykes

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it. — Wanda Sykes

L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking. — Wanda Sykes

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am. — Wanda Sykes

I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house. — Wanda Sykes

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet. — Wanda Sykes

I hate when women compare men to dogs. Men are not dogs. Dogs are loyal. I've never found any strange panties in my dog's house. — Wanda Sykes

Why don't you marry another gay guy? That was fun... — Wanda Sykes

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. — Henry Louis Gates

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too. — Wanda Sykes

I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy. — Wanda Sykes

What drives the creative person is that we see it all. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike. — Wanda Sykes

Men don't hear women. — Wanda Sykes

Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh. — Wanda Sykes

I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all. — Wanda Sykes

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on. — Wanda Sykes

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are. — Wanda Sykes

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do. — Wanda Sykes

When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing. — Wanda Sykes

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.' — Wanda Sykes

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking. — Wanda Sykes

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire. — Wanda Sykes

Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny. — Wanda Sykes

Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos? — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians. — Wanda Sykes

I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys. — Wanda Sykes

Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up. — Wanda Sykes

That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing. — Wanda Sykes

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real. — Wanda Sykes

I'm here today because I hated everything else. — Wanda Sykes

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun. — Wanda Sykes

I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs. — Wanda Sykes

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again. — Wanda Sykes

Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida ... Good grief ... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole. — Wanda Sykes

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom. — Wanda Sykes

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place. — Wanda Sykes

I feel today's society is so judgmental. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy. — Wanda Sykes

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in mail one day and be like, I'm Secretary of State next month! — Wanda Sykes

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science. — Wanda Sykes

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal. — Wanda Sykes

We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.' — Wanda Sykes

I watched a lot of comedy growing up. — Wanda Sykes

There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment. — Wanda Sykes

Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal. — Wanda Sykes

I'm really funny now. — Wanda Sykes

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business. — Wanda Sykes

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. — Wanda Sykes