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

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.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

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

I am an isolationist.

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