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Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“Most time I pretend I ain't even there. He don't know the difference.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Neglect
“ [Celie confronts Albert] Nettie and my kids be comin' home soon, and when they get here we gonna set around and whip your ass.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Threat
“Shug: That means you still a virgin.

Celie: Yeah, because don't nobody love me.

Shug: I love you.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: virgin, Love, I Love You
“[to Albert] Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: do right, Failure
“[on leaving the farm in Shug's car, shouting to Albert] I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: poor, Black, ugly, perseverance
“[to herself, after Shug shouts Albert's first name when she throws the burned food out of the bedroom] Albert?”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Mistaken Identity
“We’re here for a reason. I believe that reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
— Whoopi Goldberg, 30 Empowering Quotes from Women Who Dare
Tagged: Women Empowerment
“The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Jail, Threat
“Shenzi: What's the hurry? We'd love you to stick around for dinner.

Banzai: Yeah. We could have whatever's 'lion' around.

Shenzi: Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a 'cub' sandwich.”
— Shenzi the Hyena (voice), The Lion King
Tagged: Puns, Animal Puns
“Celie: [to Shug] He beat me when you ain't here.

Shug: Who do? Albert?

Celie: Mister.

Shug: Why he do that?

Celie: He beat me for not being you.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Domestic Violence
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Plus Ca Change
“Celie: He just climb on top of me and do his business.

Shug: 'Do his business'? You sound like he going to the toilet on you.

Celie: That's what it feel like.

Shug: Why then, Miss Celie...that means you still a virgin!”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Toilet, Intercourse, virgin
“Shug like honey. And now, I's just like a bee.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Honey, Bee
“I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done. I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”
— Whoopi Goldberg, 28 Empowering Quotes From Women Who Kick Ass
Tagged: Women Empowerment
“I have power because I took it.”
— Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Weinstein Scandal: Men In Hollywood Staying Silent? | The View
Tagged: feminism, Power, Quote of the Moment
“Shug: More than anything God love admiration.

Celie: You saying God is vain?

Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.

Celie: You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the Bible?

Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk? [they laugh]

Shug: Oh Miss Celie, I feels like singing!”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Bible, Purple, Singing, Dancing
“Shug: [after telling Albert that she and her husband are leaving] Celie is coming with us.

Albert: What?

Shug: Celie is coming with us to Memphis.

Albert: Over my dead body.

Shug: You satisfied? That what you want?

Albert: [to Celie] NOW What's wrong with you?

Celie: You a low-down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: memphis, over my dead body, dirty dog
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