You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

I love to tease men with my legs.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

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

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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.