Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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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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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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[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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What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.
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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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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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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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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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I'm as American as Chevrolet.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
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I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
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Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
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If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.
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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.