Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
I am an isolationist.
We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.