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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.

Source: Lady Sings the Blues, ch. 11 (written with William Dufty, 1956; rev. 1975).
-- Billie Holiday, (Apr 7 1915-1959), US singer; She was a noted jazz vocalist whose 1956 autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, inspired the film, 1972.

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