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.
Nationality: American Type: Entertainer Born: December 8, 1925 Death: May 16, 1990 |
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.