What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

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.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

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

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

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