My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.