I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

Every ever you are, you can shine!

creativity is our only weapon against entropy

Conduct, not speech, flowery

People go to the movies instead of moving.

I say no wealth is worth my life.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.