We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.