"I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was."

“I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.”

“What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.”

“Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.”

“Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.”

“I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.”

“I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.”

“I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.”

“We read the future by the past.”

Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.164, University of Virginia Press