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"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
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"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
Fault
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
Dew
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
Thought
"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
Being
"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
Feelings
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
People
"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
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"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world."
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"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."
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"I am a citizen of the world."
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"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."
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"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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