no sideways

In a 1994 profile of Miss Norman, Classic CD magazine said that when she became trapped in some swinging doors on the way to a concert and was advised to turn sideways to free herself, she replied: "Honey, I ain't got no sideways."
The singer contended she never uttered the remark, which she said held her up to ridicule, mockery and contempt because it conformed to a "degrading racist stereotype of a person of African-American heritage."
She sued the magazine for libel over the remark which she called "vulgar and undignified."