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.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

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

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

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?