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What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

Whoopi Goldberg

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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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