My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.