"I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it."
"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."
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Source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.6, Random House
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