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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?
Whoopi Goldberg
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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.
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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
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Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
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Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?
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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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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
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If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
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I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
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The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.
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