As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.