There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

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

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

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

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

I am an isolationist.