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

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

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

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

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

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

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.