It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr. , C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien. ]
When you know my love, my love will warm you.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career. ’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.
Imitation is suicide, envy is ignorance.
You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.