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.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

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

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

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.