Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.