I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
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.
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.