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

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

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

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

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

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

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