I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

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

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.

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

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