Quotes:Whoopi Goldberg

From Harpo's Juke Joint

"I started talking with some of the black women from the area, the women who worked as maids and nannies, who swallowed their pride and did what they had to do to raise their families and carry on...what the hell was wrong with playing them? Nothing. Nothing."

Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955) is the only black entertainer who has earned a Grammy, a Tony, an Emmy and an Oscar.

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• I started talking with some of the black women from the area, the women who worked as maids and nannies, who swallowed their pride and did what they had to do to raise their families and carry on. I'd never lived with the threat that if I spoke my mind someone would break into my house in the dead of night and take my child and cover him with hot tar and feathers and hang him in a tree. I started to look at them as heroic. They kept the family together - theirs, and the upper-class white families they were working for. And they survived. So what the hell was wrong with playing them? Nothing. Nothing.

- Whoopi Goldberg's Book, pgs. 131-132 (paraphrased)