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.
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.