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" If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. "

Whoopi Goldberg

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" I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me. "

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" When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. "

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" I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me. "

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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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" An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything. "

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" I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. "

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

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" Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good. "

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" I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. "

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

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" Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them. "

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" You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done. "

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" Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. "

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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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" Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works. "

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

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" The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. "

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" There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together. "

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

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" For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues. "

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" I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black? "

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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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" When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it. "

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

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" Just call me black, if you want to call me anything. "

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