"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."

-- Whoopi Goldberg

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“Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.”
“Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.”
“I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”
“Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.”
“People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness”
“Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.”

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