I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole
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- Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
- I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
- 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.
- 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.