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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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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."
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"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
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"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
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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."
Fear
"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money."
Business
"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."
Heart
"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
People
"You've got to change with the public's taste."
Change
"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."
Music
"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work."
Education
"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death."
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