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

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

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.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

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.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.