You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is
Whoopi GoldbergI'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
Whoopi GoldbergThere are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
Whoopi Goldberg[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
Whoopi Goldberg