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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Billie Holiday

Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Children Himself Lose
I don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
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Feeling Horn Myself Sing Thinking
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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Body Eat Life Love Yourself
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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Feeling Improvisation Myself
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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Myself Need Sing
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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Hard Kill Love Yourself
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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Appearance Hairs Plantation Yourself
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

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