I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.

I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.