Status Updates From Billie Holiday: The Last In...

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"I hold no regrets and I carry no shame. Nobody can laugh or cry for you you have to do it all alone if my life was wrong/right good/bad it's still my life and what will happen just to me, we're all the same but we're different what sings in you sings different in me and it's all part of the crazy game called living but when I leave the slump they call a world I'm going to leave all my blues behind &walk off singing'

my comments on the narcotics problem we're reprinted in a US medical journal. I proved that "professional" people in the country know nothing about the human side of the drug addict and don't really give a damn about the problem if they did they would have found a way to help others like me instead of leaving us to the cops who think that when they pick up some users they're cleaning up some garbage from the streets"

"illegal hunger they call it maybe so but so we're the hunger's in the nerves of the people who filled the brothels in which I worked so where the boozy hungersin the people who came into the joints where I sang but the Legals winked at their hungers and flash badges at mine and it's not too much different now."

"I've been and done a lot of things in my life but all through whatever I've been or done I've always been a woman I never felt inferior to anyone and I wouldn't learn to knuckle down and act like I was lower even if it meant getting the break I always wanted."

"part of me is a wild Irish spirit and part of me is the deep Brown earthy beauty of my great-grandmother the combination mixed in me gave me a "meaning" that made me driving sometimes and sometimes deadly sometimes sentimental and sometimes riotous and free and all the other times just soft and bluesy but the way inside of me I know that "meaning" is what makes me want to keep alive no matter what"