My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking, — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out… — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining… — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
