Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.
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Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
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I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
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Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
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I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
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If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
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[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
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Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
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Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
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You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is
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I'm as American as Chevrolet.
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Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.
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Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
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I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
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I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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I had gone through several crazy headache bouts, and I realized that part of the reason I was having them was because I wasn't smoking marijuana. When my daughter gave me a vape pen, I realized that I could relegate it to where I needed it to be. And I would talk to my older grandkids in their 20s, and they'd say they use weed to stop cramps. That's when I really started to investigate and asked the question, "Is anybody doing this?" And they gave me that horrifying answer: "niche market".
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Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.
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There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.
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It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention
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You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.