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?

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

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

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

I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

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

Art is an elastic sort of love.