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Billie Holiday Quotes

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Billie Holiday
“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
Billie Holiday

Clare Vanderpool
“And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81”
Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early

Maggie Nelson
“Nonetheless, as Billie Holiday knew, it remains the case that to see blue in deeper and deeper saturation is eventually to move toward darkness.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Maya Angelou
“We have to go."

Billie looked up from her drink and said, "Speak for yourself. All I got to do is stay black and die.”
Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

Julio Cortázar
“(...) pero escuchar a Billie Holiday era una tristeza hermosa que daba ganas de acostarse y llorar de felicidad (...)”
Julio Cortázar

Alicia D. Williams
“All of a sudden, I wonder if Billie Holiday ever sang in front of the mirror.”
Alicia D. Williams, Genesis Begins Again

“There's dust, a scratch in a groove,
and here we are repeating
the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit.”
Chet'la Sebree, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019