Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
From Sammy Davis, Jr.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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