I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

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

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

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

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.