There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

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

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

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.