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Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
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Dancer
Entertainer
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
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New York City
New York
Samuel George Davis Jr.
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You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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