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

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

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

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

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

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