We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.
“I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.”
“I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.”