Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

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

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

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.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

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.