"I've learned by livin' and watchin' that there is only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the seat of the pants."
Hattie McDaniel
article | april 15, 1941
Denver Post {as quoted in Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood}
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