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

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

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

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

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

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.