I'm not a civil rights leader. I'm just Louis Armstrong.
Jazz trumpeter
Reported in interviews, downplaying his role in the civil rights movement despite his outspokenness in 1957
Post-1957
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"I don't mind if I have a little something for my health, you know, a little pot."
Humorous"All I do is play my horn. I don't get into politics."
Controversial"Man, all that scratchin' and screamin' ain't music. That's just noise."
Humorous"I think I'm a jazz musician. I don't know what else I am."
Humorous"I still remember the first time I heard the word 'nigger'. I was seven years old. A white man called me that. I didn't know what it meant, but I knew it was bad."
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