I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

All men can live together, if they wish to.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

You must get an education. You must go to school and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen and not the gun.

He was my cream and I was his coffee And when you poured us together it was something.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.