Sammy Davis, Jr.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.