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.

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

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

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.

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.

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

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.