Those who become mentally ill often have a history...

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.