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"I have to be a star like another man has to breathe."
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"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."
"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
"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."
"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
"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."
"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."
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