"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."

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Source : Lady Sings the Blues ch. 11 (1956).

Billie Holiday

#Hair Quotes #White Quotes #Black History Quotes

“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.”

Source : Mark Mathabane (1986). “Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa”, Macmillan Pub Co
“We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Itâ€™s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.”
“I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.”
“Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously”
“Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
“Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.”

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