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I walk past a little gangbanger, 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 just lose what you have on you that day, but I ain't never been mugged of my future. No thug ever ran up on me: "Give me your 401(k). . . . I want your college fund, your ira. I want it all.

—Wanda Sykes

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Wanda Yvette Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. She was first recognized for her work as a writer on The Chris Rock Show, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1999. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly named Sykes as one of the...

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I still say black. I say it because . . . African American . . . doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people . . . saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black." . . . You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan." . . . You were rejected for that loan last week." . . . "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need.

—Wanda Sykes

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