We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.

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.

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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