Nat King Cole

"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work."

"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."

"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."

"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."