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

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

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

You don't swing where you sleep.