There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

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

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

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