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.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

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

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

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

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.