We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.