Hattie McDaniel

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.