We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

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

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

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

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

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