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?

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

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