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.

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

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.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

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