In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.

When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

In love, there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive