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

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

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

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.