"I want to be a poet, a painter, a writer, a dancer, a singer. I want to be a human being."

"If you have a problem, you don't go to the doctor, you go to the root doctor."

"It is the curse of the black race to be forever looking backward, forever remembering."

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"Ah, if I were not myself, I would be a good deal more interesting."