There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
From Nat King Cole
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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.
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.
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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