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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.


Jackie Robinson

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JACKIE COOPER To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
JACKIE COOPER They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
JACKIE COOPER People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they n...
JACKIE COOPER A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
JACKIE COOPER They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
JACKIE COOPER There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
JACKIE COOPER So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go a...
JACKIE COOPER I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire...
JACKIE COOPER They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs becau...
JACKIE COOPER If it's boring, then it's tiring.
JACKIE COOPER