Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Whoopi Goldberg
Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.

Whoopi Goldberg
I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.

Whoopi Goldberg
The name was a fluke. A joke. It started when I was doing A Christmas Carol in San Diego. We'd sit backstage and talk about names we'd never give our children, like Pork Pie or Independence. Of course, now people are walking around with those names. A woman said to me, "If I was your mother, I would have called you Whoopi, because when you're unhappy you make a sound like a whoopee cushion. It sounds like a fart." It was like "Ha-ha-ha-ha—Whoopi!" So people actually started calling me Whoopi Cushion. After about a year, my mother said, "You won't be taken seriously if you call yourself Whoopi Cushion. So try this combination: Whoopi Goldberg."

Whoopi Goldberg
I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape.
In defense of Roman Polansky

Whoopi Goldberg
If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

Whoopi Goldberg
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. The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. This is my country. My people helped to build it and we've been here for centuries. Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

Whoopi Goldberg
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

Whoopi Goldberg
I want to thank everybody who makes movies. As a little kid, I lived in the projects, and you're the people I watched. You're the people who made me want to be an actor.

Whoopi Goldberg
I am not an African American. I'm not from Africa. I'm from New York. My roots run a whole lot deeper than most of the people who don't have anything in front of the word American. I can trace my family tree back to the Mayflower. We may not have been on it, but we were under it, and that counts too.

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