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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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- Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
- My home has always been show business.
- You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
- I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
- I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.