mr. bojangles, mr. bojangles, mr. bojangles, come back and dance ♪. >> his gift was his talent. curse was being black in america. >> it's no fun to walk into a place you're going to play in and be told that we've had 14 bomb threats. >> even if you win, you don't win. g go said these people are in enterttoainer no matter how muc they hate me as a black. >> if i could have lived in the '20s with valentino, i would have had the leopards on a leash walking down the street. >> you played it for her, you played it for me. >> i'm a black guy but i'm going to imtate a white guy. >> you dirty rat. >> this was really groundbreaking at the time he did it. >> hanging out with sinatra and those guys increased his cool factor. >> he's one of the boys. >> sammy saw himself as somebody breaking new ground for black people but there was definitely the perception that he was a sellout. >> any time you walk down the street and your own people turn you away, all the money, the diamonds, fame and fortune, mean absolutely nothing. . so how was work? sam: it was thirteen hundred hours. my math class,