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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

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
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
You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
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End Feeling Reality Work Yourself
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
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
I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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Money See World
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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
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
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
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
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
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 sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
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
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
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
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
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.
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Feeling Life Myself Sing Thinking Way
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
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
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Heart Home Lust Window

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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