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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.

Billie Holiday

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 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
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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Chance Myself Play Work
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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Feeling Happiness Sadness Yourself
Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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Love Myself Sing Work
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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Marriage Myself Parents Young
In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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Country Greatness Myself Short Start
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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Clothes Weird World Yourself
The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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Fall Myself Reason See
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
In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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Country Forget Hell Love Privacy Yourself
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself

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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