Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

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

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