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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• Billie Holiday:

  Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

• Billie Holiday:

  You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for an

• Billie Holiday:

  Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and

• Billie Holiday:

  In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement out

• Billie Holiday:

  I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

• Billie Holiday:

  Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

• Billie Holiday:

  A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

• Billie Holiday:

  I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

• Billie Holiday:

  If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.

• Billie Holiday:

  I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.