"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."
― Nat King Cole
Topic(s):
Politics
More From Nat King Cole
- "Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work."
- "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 am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
More In Politics
- "Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."― Ovid
- "Once you start saying, ‘Let’s talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,’ it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda."― Andrew Cuomo
- "In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."― H. G. Wells