Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

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.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.