A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories. — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.'… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial. — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
