I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea tha
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.