There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

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

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

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.