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.

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

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

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

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

I am an isolationist.

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