If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by

Everybody has a purpose.

Paradise is a state of mind.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!