“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
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“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
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“The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.”
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“I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.”
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“The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.”
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“I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.”
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“I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”
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“The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.”
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“I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.”
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“I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.”
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“It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.”
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“The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.”
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“There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!”
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“The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?”
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“I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.”
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“Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.”
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“Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.”
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“Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.”
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“I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.”
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“For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.”
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“Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.”
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