I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

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

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

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

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

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.