Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.
I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling. . . How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.
That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.
I think you want to do as much as you can for your fans. I take as many opportunities as I can when it comes to media and interviews and autograph sessions and things of that nature - as long as it's not interfering with the schedule and how much inexperience you can get on the track. When it starts to cut into that, it's kind of defeating the purpose. So that's where I draw the line.
If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess. '
Life's a little bit too crazy for my liking right now.