I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

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.

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.