Abbey Lincoln Quotes

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• I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be…
• I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I…
• The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
• We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our…
• But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can…
• I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find…
• It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a…
• There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd…
• I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
• I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio…

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