Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.