Quotes from Whoopi Goldberg

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it.

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this off with the head attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.

Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.

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

TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.

Art is long, life is short.

Before you judge me, look in the mirror.

I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm very cranky around other people.

I'm always right.

We take our parents with us.

I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.