Art is an elastic sort of love.

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

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

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

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

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.'