I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
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.