223 Quotes by Wanda Sykes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' "They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'