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> [People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-williams/people-sometimes-ask-me-if-i-would-not-give-anything-to-be-white-i/)

[Bert Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-williams/)

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## More by Bert Williams

> [I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-williams/i-have-never-been-able-to-discover-anything-disgraceful-in-being-a/)

[Bert Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-williams/)

> [People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-williams/people-sometimes-ask-me-if-i-would-not-give-anything-to-be-white-i/)

[Bert Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-williams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-williams/the-man-with-the-real-sense-of-humor-is-the-man-who-can-put-himself/)

[Bert Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-williams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-williams/a-black-face-run-down-shoes-and-elbow-out-make-up-give-me-a-place-to/)

[Bert Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-williams/)

> [I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-williams/i-named-all-my-children-after-flowers-there-s-lillie-and-rose-and-my/)

[Bert Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-williams/)

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