Billie Holiday Quotes

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.

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.

People don’t understand the sort of fight it takes to record what you want, to record the way you want to record it.

Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own! That’s got his own.