“I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my ...” — Bert Williams Quote

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

“The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.”

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

“You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.”

“A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.”

“Yes, genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc., etc. But the regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.”