If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
— Billie Holiday Modern

Jazz vocalist

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From her autobiography, 'Lady Sings the Blues'

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1956

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Strange & Unusual

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