In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

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

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.