We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.