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

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

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

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

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