It was a strange time, the sixties, a strange feeling suddenly being "black." Yet overnight thirty million "colored people" and "Negroes" had become "blacks." It was difficult to think of myself as "black."... Nobody ever got called "Negro bastard" or "colored motherfucker." It was always "black" and the word was nasty and hard.


Why Me? (1989)

Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

It was a strange time, the sixties, a strange feeling suddenly being black. Yet overnight thirty million colored people and Negroes had become...

It was a strange time, the sixties, a strange feeling suddenly being black. Yet overnight thirty million colored people and Negroes had become...

It was a strange time, the sixties, a strange feeling suddenly being black. Yet overnight thirty million colored people and Negroes had become...

It was a strange time, the sixties, a strange feeling suddenly being black. Yet overnight thirty million colored people and Negroes had become...