I Found Out Along The

A Little Nepotism Never Hurt Nobody, Honey. If You Got It, Use It. Press On With It. Remind Them Of It.

I Learned From Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, The Nicholas Brothers, The Whole Thing, The Whole Schmear. [the Cotton Club] Was A Great Place Because It Hired Us, For One Thing, At A Time When It Was Really Rough [for Black Performers].

In My Early Days I Was A Sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm Black And A Woman, Singing My Own Way.

Malcolm X Raised My Consciousness About Myself And My People And Other People More Than Any Person I Know. I Knew Him Before He Became Malcolm X.

I Don't Have To Be An Imitation Of A White Woman That Hollywood Sort Of Hoped I'd Become. I'm Me, And I'm Like Nobody Else.