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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. "

Whoopi Goldberg

Acting

Good

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

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" Born ham, that's basically me. "

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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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" 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. "

" I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. "

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

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

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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. "

" It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling. "

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" I'm as American as Chevrolet. "

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American

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

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