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

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 would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.