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

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

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

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

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