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.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

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

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.