Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

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

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

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

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