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"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."
Time
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
Living
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
Time
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
Dew
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
Joy
"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
Being
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
Thought
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
Mom
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
Business
"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
Feelings
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