I never had a mother that was really a mother. I just had a kid that was a mother. She was eighteen, I was thirteen, and she used to go out and live it up. So I had to go out and get a job. I was working in a whorehouse.
Jazz vocalist
Interview with Ralph J. Gleason, 'Lady Sings the Blues' (autobiography)
1956
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