If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

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

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.