Quotes from Wanda Sykes

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

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

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

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

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

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

I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

These CEOs are scary. I walk past a gang banger; I don't even flinch. But I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Cutting through the projects, you might lose what you have on you that day, but I ain't never been mugged of my future. No thug ever said, "Give me your 401K. I want your college fund, your IRA. I want it all."

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 will get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

If you see a white man running, you think "He must be late for a meeting." When you see a black man running, you think, "I'm calling the cops. Hey, somebody stop his black ass!"

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

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.

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

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

Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, 'Listen, you're not pregnant.' I said, 'Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit.

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.

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

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

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.

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

My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.