All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.