If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

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.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.