Quote by Billie Holiday
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He w

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

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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

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