Where there is money, there is fighting.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.