Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

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.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

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

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.