What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

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