I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

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?

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

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.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

Art is an elastic sort of love.