Billy Eckstine University of Michigan Interview Block 135 (Q4838)

You know, it's a funny thing. I never had those hang-ups. I mean, I think the people that were concerned, maybe your agents and things had those things, but I never knew. I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.