Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

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

I am an isolationist.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

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

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