Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

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.

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

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.