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Quote by Billie Holiday
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in yo

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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In this country, dont forget, a habit is no damn private hell. Theres no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country its the worst kind of hell for those who love you. – Billie Holiday

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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. – W.E.B. DuBois

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The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

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