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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.

Billie Holiday

God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
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
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Better Hard Kill Sing Slow Way
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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Change Hate Music Myself Sing
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hard Kill Love Yourself
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Learning Past Point
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Marriage Myself Parents Young
I don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Feeling Life Myself Sing Thinking Way
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
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Friendship Myself
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Chance Myself Play Work

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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