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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
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"They drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around; I drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around."
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"There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others."

"Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer."

"I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer."

"I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too."
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"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."

"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."

"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."

"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."

"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
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