I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

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

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

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