I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I recognize the republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

I am a republican, a black, dyed in the wool republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.