All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

I don't have many easy songs.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.