The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

- Bert Williams

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

- Bert Williams

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

- Bert Williams