Quotes from Bert Williams

I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient—in America.

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 misfortune.

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

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 misfortune.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.