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

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

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

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

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

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

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