The public has become my fairy godmother.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

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.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.