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

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

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

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.