We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

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

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

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