All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
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.
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.
it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.