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Bessie Smith

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[Wikipedia] Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, she is often regarded as one o

Quotes by Bessie Smith

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

Drummer

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The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Singers

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Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Communication

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I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.

Bowls

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No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Black history

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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

Been

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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

End times

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When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

Awful

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I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Angel

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“You been a good old wagon but Daddy you gone done broke down”

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There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

Eighteen

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