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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWanda Sykes: "When they see me, they don't know which way to hate." ):
On 'Piers Morgan Tonight,' tallking about sexuality and race. Great lady!
one_voice
(20,043 posts)She's so funny and real.
Warpy
(111,319 posts)There I was, a Yankee from an Irish Catholic family turned atheist in a sea of Southern Baptists. It's a good thing they didn't know about my dubious ancestry, they'd have had a couple of other directions to run away.
It didn't help that I was gawky, wore jar bottom glasses, and was a math shark.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I also was raised as an Irish Catholic--lost my religion in Vietnam.
Warpy
(111,319 posts)I'm convinced Catholic schools were an institution dedicated to the production of atheists. Most I know in real life survived Catholic school.
Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)Was that it was a sort of spiritual immunization against falling for fundamentalism. I know of not one of my classmates that became "born again". And so, that is a pretty amazing feat, really.
Cha
(297,503 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I liked her in, The new adventures of old Christine, with Julia Louis Dryfus.
jazzimov
(1,456 posts)her little remarks as a "throwaway" hit so close to the mark - there are so many movies that wouldn't be the same if Wanda wasn't there!
catbyte
(34,423 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Kennah
(14,299 posts)I have to wonder if Wanda Sykes ad libbed that line in "Monster In Law" to try and make Jane Fonda break up laughing.