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

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

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 have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

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.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

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