You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

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

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.

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?

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

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

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.