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Cab Calloway Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 25, 1907 - November 18, 1994

Topics

Free Segregation Cotton Open Club

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Time Men Up Keep South Carolina

Lennon has an amazing ability to think before she speaks. She doesn't have to constantly be talking. She just thinks, and when she speaks, it's thoughtful. She's very calm. I'm trying to learn that from her.

Jessica St. Clair

Amazing Calm Think Learn Talking

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

Great Pressure Open Great Thing Much

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

Heart Rules Ready Drama Play True

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.

Health Safety Better Workplace Mean

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

Work Freedom Path Feel Environment

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Tree Man Plants Deep Black American

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

Work Hard Work View You Way Hard

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

Life Live Struggle Yourself Think

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Romesh Gunesekera

Poetry Place Kind Island Land Level

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.

People Comedy Special Will See Film

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi

Acceptance Death Warrior Way

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