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

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.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

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

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.