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

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

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.

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

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

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.