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"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."
Thought
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
People
"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life
"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."
Hurt
"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."
Life
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
Idea
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
Intelligence
"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."
Life
"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."
Success
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
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"If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew."
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"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
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"Hell is so bloody thing, but with Lucifer from Lucifer series, hell is like comedy."
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"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire."
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
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"I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve."
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"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
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"It sure is hell to be president."
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