I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

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

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.