There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

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

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

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

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.