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

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

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.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

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

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.