As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some