Whoopi Goldberg

“I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.”

“I don't really view communism as a bad thing.”

“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”

“I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.”

“My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.”

“I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.”

“We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”

“We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a duty tonight. You only have to tell one other person what you heard. Just tell them what you heard, or ask them have you ever heard of this? If the answer is no, share what you learn tonight.That’s all. You don’t have to do anything else. You just have to tell somebody else. You have to take whatever stigma people think that is there. You have to take it. It’s not male or female. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with, here’s a disease you don’t know about and you need to know about it. It’s that simple. It’s not rocket science.[Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball]”

“I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.”

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.”

“The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.”

“That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.”

“People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.”

“If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.”

“We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.”

“I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.”

“It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.”

“The art of acting is to be other than what you are.”

“Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?”

“Art is long, life is short.”