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.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

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.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

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

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.