Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.