I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected

When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.