I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

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 have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

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