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• Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes…
• I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do…
• I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
• Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all…
• In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard…
• I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
• Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
• Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on…
• I am an isolationist.
• I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be…
• We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
• I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

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