Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.