I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

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.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

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

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.