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Bert Williams

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

Bert Williams, American Entertainer
America, Being, Man
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"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

Nina Simone, American Musician
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"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

Keith Emerson, British Musician
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"I get all fired up about aging in America."

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"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama."

Joan Collins, American Actress
America, Drama, England, Order
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"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."

Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian Lawyer
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"Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over."

Robert Guillaume, American Actor
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