He Was My Cream, And I Was

Is That What They Call A Vocation, What You Do With Joy As If You Had Fire In Your Heart, The Devil In Your Body?

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.

I Have Never Really Been A Great Artist. I Have Been A Human Being That Has Loved Art, Which Is Not The Same Thing. But I Have Loved And Believed In Art And The Idea Of Universal Brotherhood So Much, That I Have Put Everything I Have Into Them, And I Have Been Blessed.

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.

One Dance Had Made Me The Most Famous Colored Woman In The World.