Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.

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.

How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.