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

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

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

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

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