- Gifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Greatest Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
- Hypocrisy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
- Faults
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was a child.
- Felt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an isolationist.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020