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The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee -
And when you poured us together, it was something.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

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.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

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 love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

I believe in prayer. It's the best ...

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

I shall dance all my life ... I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

All men can live together, if they wish to.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest ... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.