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.

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

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

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

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

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