I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

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.

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.

I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.

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.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.