Daily Inspiration Quote by Whoopi Goldberg

A child’s-eye flex disguised as a throwaway line, Goldberg’s sentence is really about survival: when the world won’t cooperate, you change the world in your head long enough to keep going. The phrasing matters. “I used my imagination” frames creativity as a tool, not a personality trait. It’s practical, almost matter-of-fact, like improvisation learned early. And “whatever color I wanted” isn’t just whimsy; it’s control. In a life where race, class, and gatekeeping can dictate how you’re seen, the ability to repaint the scene becomes a private form of agency.

The grass is doing cultural work here, too. Grass is the default backdrop of the American “normal”: lawns, parks, Little League, the supposed neutrality of everyday life. By saying she could recolor it, Goldberg quietly rejects the idea that “normal” is fixed or owned by anyone. She’s also hinting at performance. Actors trade in imagination professionally, but the best ones learned it before they ever had an audience. This feels less like artsy nostalgia than a description of how a performer builds an inner set when the external one is hostile or boring.

The subtext is a rebuke to literalism. If you insist reality is only what’s in front of you, you miss the people who have to reimagine reality to endure it - and the artists who later turn that habit into a career. Goldberg makes that sound like play. It’s also strategy.