Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I've played everything but a harp.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.

At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be used against you.