If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.