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

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

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.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

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

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?