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

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

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.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

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

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

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