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

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

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

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

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

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