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

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

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

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.