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"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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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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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
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"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."
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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."
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"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
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"Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables."
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"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
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"You've got to change with the public's taste."
Change
"The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things."
Respect
"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
"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."
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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."
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"I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers."
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"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death."
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