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

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.

I've played everything but a harp.

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

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had

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