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Brief author info: Billie Holiday (1915-1959) Famous american singer; toured with Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, and other Big Band greats; also appeared in such films as Symphony in Black.

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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

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.

Billie Holiday

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

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

Billie Holiday

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.

Billie Holiday

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Billie Holiday

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