There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

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

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

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

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