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 am somebody cause God don't make no junk

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.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

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