A woman's gifts will make room for her.
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
Because of the publicity they receive, outsiders may get the idea that many more of us are Communists. And that is not good for the race.
Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.
Denver is the only read home I ever had, and I hope to be able to stay here again someday.
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
Fellow members of the motion picture industry, guests, this is one of the happiest moments of my life.
He thought because he married me, he wouldn't have to work.
Hell can't be anything worse what I'm living through right now.
I always have the best of everything.
I am enjoying my poems immensely because I just received my divorce. Smile.
I am ill and I want to come home for a rest. I am positive there will be no hard feelings on my race, as I understand them.
I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
I am sure that the picture will live up to every expectation of the producer and the preview critics.
I did my best, and God did the rest.
I do not intend to trot all over God's creation when my home is here. Can you blame me?
I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.
I have had to file for divorce. I cannot stand conditions any longer.
I have nothing but the highest praise for the cooperation extended by my fellow players and the entire studio staff.
I have spent my life in entertainment.
I never played a child, so now I have collections.
I personally intend to stay married forever this time.
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
I sure am tired of drinking this colored tea.
I want to thank each of you who had a part in selecting me for one of the awards.
I'll be all right; I'll soon be up and back into harness.
I'm letting no man handle my bank account.
I'm not real happy. I guess I never really have been.
I'm telling you, it was the hottest afternoon I had seen in many a day, and the sun wasn't shining either.
I've had my share of good luck, and now it's someone else's turn.
I've played everything but a harp.
If I am proud at all, I am proud of the fact that Hattie McDaniel has been able to add something which I hope will be a lasting credit to our race.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
It always makes me feel very humble, and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future.
It is not necessary for me to speak for the picture, as I know most of you have seen it.
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
It was the real stuff, so they say, and they tell me it was good, but I don't know because it was burning my mouth so.
It's been many a year since I've been before the real footlights, but just to see your happy faces just does something to me.
It's not how much can I spare; it's how much have I?
Maybe I'll get criticized again. But when has it become a sin to laugh?
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
My heart is too full to express just how I feel.
My pa's there in the circle with the veterans of the Civil War.
My work with the Hollywood Victory Committee has taken me into camps where our boys are stationed. These boys are fine and clean and brave.
New York is jumping. The streets are crowded with Christmas shoppers.
Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
That's one fine judge. I'm mighty happy I've still got my home.
The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.
The Old Man upstairs has deserted me. It's damn hard for me to believe in God or anything.
The system of rationing made everyone equal.
There was an opportunity to glorify Negro womanhood.
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
Well, the war is on. I can understand now why the British want to go home.
What do you want me to do? Play a glamour girl and sit on Clark Gable's knee?
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
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!
When you ask me not to play the parts, what have you got to offer in return?
When you folks are eating your Christmas dinner, think of me.
Why should a person from my background have such high ambitions?
With so many soldiers stationed in or near Los Angeles, there is always the call to go out and entertain at a USO center or at an army camp.
You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
Hattie is one of only 22 African American to win an Oscar.
Hattie was nominated for her Best Supporting Actress Oscar alongside her co-star Olivia de Havilland.
Hattie was the first African American to be buried in Los Angeles' Rosedale Cemetery.
Hattie's Oscar for Best Supporting Actress was presented to her by Fay Bainter.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1939, for her role in the movie Gone With the Wind. In doing so she became the first African-American to win, or be nominated for, an Oscar.
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