I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

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