I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

I will preach with my brush.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

Clancy had taught me well.

Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her; if you play with somebody else, she fights with you.