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

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

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.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.