Balconies Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You…

— Daryl Davis

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That…

— Trevor Noah

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

— Claudette Colvin

I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.

— David Steward

You know when Sharpton and I walked in, it was like... big commotion and everything. But everybody was very nice. And I couldn't get…

— Bill O'Reilly

Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black…

— Jesse White

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve…

— Ray Stannard Baker

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

— Tracy Morgan

I kept thinking that the audience had gone to so much trouble, working their schedules to be there. They had arranged for babysitters and…

— Carol Channing

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the…

— Kenneth Tynan

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you…

— Dick Gregory