"The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall."

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I think what people were trying with me was to figure out who I was. They thought I was funny, but they were like, "How can we use this guy so he can regularly do this?" Does that make any sense? I think people were trying to figure out if my fat peg would fit in their square hole.

— Louie Anderson