“I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around”

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

It is unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’