At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

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