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" In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. "

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" When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. "

" Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living. "

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" This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment. "

" I fight for other people better than I fight for myself. "

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" I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. "

" I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold. "

" I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. "

" I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child. "

" Even as a child, I found a way to survive. "

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" I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. "

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" I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it? "

" We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant. "

" In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act. "

" Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted. "

" If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money. "

" Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection. "

" I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself. "

" Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. "

" I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans. "

" Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. "