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.
Jazz trumpeter
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.
Jazz trumpeter
Recollections from his autobiography 'Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans'
1954 (book publication)
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