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 Modern

Jazz vocalist

From her autobiography, 'Lady Sings the Blues'

1956

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