Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

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Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).

— Billie Holiday

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

— Billie Holiday

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

— Billie Holiday