A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings th…

- Bert Williams

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

- Bert Williams

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

- Bert Williams

People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I …

- Bert Williams