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Abbey Lincoln has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with…
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The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
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We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our…
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But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come,…
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if…
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max…
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come…
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't…
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Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.…
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"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel…
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They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for…
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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs,…
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