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"My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them."
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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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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."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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