Abbey Lincoln: Billie Holiday

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Uploaded by on Jan 15, 2009

Abbey Lincoln discusses Billie Holiday with La-Verne Cody Gittens, producer of LINK, Everyday Dramas In The Lives Of African Americans.

Abbey Lincoln states that Billie Holiday "had the courage to defend herself. When they were lynching the men and women in the south, she sang about it. None of the other women or men sang about it: that's why Billie is different from the rest of them."

Ms. Lincoln says that Billie Holiday was "a philosopher and a queen without a court. She never sold her soul, and there has never been a more beautiful woman on the stage than Billie Holiday."

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  • abbey lincoln, another queen without her due court. praises and blessings!!!!

  • RIP Abbey

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  • Sh is one and only !!

    Beautiful.

  • Bless!!

    on my knees..

    for Billy Holiday...

    thanx to her I Am ..

  • Interesting.  I like that.

  • DO I LUV HER? U BETCHA..

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