Whoopi Goldberg

"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."

"“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”"

"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."

"I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."

"I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation."

"If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests."

"My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions."

"We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure."

"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."

"I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me... I think I'm kind of cool."

"We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a duty tonight. You only have to tell one other person what you heard. Just tell them what you heard, or ask them have you ever heard of this? If the answer is no, share what you learn tonight. That’s all. You don’t have to do anything else. You just have to tell somebody else. You have to take whatever stigma people think that is there. You have to take it. It’s not male or female. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with, here’s a disease you don’t know about and you need to know about it. It’s that simple. It’s not rocket science.[Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball]"

"It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am wearing sneakers too. You are in a suit, I am comfortable. So when she explained to me that this was the first event really of its kind, it floored me. So I called my daughter who is in her 30s now and I said “do you know what endometriosis is?” She said, “what? Have to pack the pack the busters.”I said “no man, you have never heard of it?” No she said. I do not know what it is, and it occurred to me that my 30-year-old daughter who I told about endometriosis and it didn’t stick. If she didn’t know, and she is one of the hippest people I know, and her daughter doesn’t know, she has 19-year-old and she is a 13-year-old. The boy, we don’t care much about if he knows about it so much. There is other stuff for him to learn. Like how to roll a condom, things like that. You know, and it occurred to me that if they didn’t know that there were hundreds of thousands girls out there that don’t know. It is not because their mothers don’t want to tell them, because it’s not religion, it’s pure ignorance. We don’t know, we don’t have the information, we have it now, and so now is why this very first gathering is happening. Now is why we’re all sitting here looking really fabulous as you are...[Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball]"

"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."

"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're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."

"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."