I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.