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" Actors have no color. That's the art form. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Form
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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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