22 Quotes by Byron Allen


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    When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, you don't have much choice but to move on.

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    We went back to see the damage and boy was there some damage. The house was totally gone.

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    When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation.

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    African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.

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    I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.

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    I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.

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