After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

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

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

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