Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

by Whoopi Goldberg

“Listen, there are going to be terrible things that happen in the world. And there’s nothing you can do about them. They are what they are. But your decision is going to have to be, ‘Do I allow those bad things to stunt my growth as a human being? Am I just going to sit down and die over it? Or am I going to try to figure out how to be better?’ Which one do you think is a waste of time?”