You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
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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
Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more.
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If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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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.
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