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

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

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

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

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

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