I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

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

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

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

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.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.