Wanda Sykes Quotes

I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

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• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• I have many, many gay friends.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Friends
  • Gay
  • Many

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• There are just so many young designers now.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Young
  • Just
  • Now

• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Future
  • Young
  • Group

• I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Young

• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Soldiers

• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Black
  • Couple

• Go West, young man.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Man
  • Young
  • Young Man

• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Black
  • Opinion
  • Heavy-Metal

• One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Up
  • Work
  • Young

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Sometimes
  • Young
  • Old

• I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Three

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Things
  • Trouble
  • Opinions

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

  

  Loretta Reynolds
  • Women

• Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.

  

  Mary Lou Retton
  • Support

• My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

  

  John Conyers
  • She
  • Friends
  • Husband

• I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Young