There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

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All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

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I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

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There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

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We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

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New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

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We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

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