Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

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

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

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

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.