Bessie Quotes

You've never lived till you've flown! — Bessie Coleman

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo. — Bessie Smith

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. — Bessie Coleman

Do you know what the difference between a Hucow and a normal woman is?
A Hucow lactates great quantities of milk and is always very, very horny. — Bessie Hucow

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

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

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

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people. — Bessie Head

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

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

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle. — Alvah Bessie

I write because I have authority from life to do so. — Bessie Head

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.' — Alvah Bessie

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married. — J.D. Salinger

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity. — Bessie Head

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write. — Bessie Head

Down Hearted Blues, by Bessie Smith. This is the song Ingersoll is singing to the baby — Tom Franklin

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. — Winston Churchill

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches. — Alvah Bessie

Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith. This is the one most closely associated with the 1927 flood, — Tom Franklin

Live well laugh often and love much. — Bessie Anderson Stanley

I refused to take no for an answer. — Bessie Coleman

prostrate body. He groaned when — Bessie Marchant

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. — Bessie Anderson Stanley

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. — Bessie Head

The air is the only place free from prejudice. — Bessie Coleman

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

Bessie?" I looked down at the bull serpent. "But ... he's too cute. He couldn't destroy the world."
-Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan

From now on, if I ever get to burn another newspaper, I'll remember what a few cents can buy. — Alvah C. Bessie

Bessie, the old gray mule, had two speeds: slow and stop. A stick of dynamite could not have put any more giddy-up in her pace ... — Carolyn Brown

Live well, Laugh often, Love much. — Bessie Anderson Stanley

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly! — Bessie Coleman

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage. — J.D. Salinger

Listen to my story and everything will come out true — Bessie Smith

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman

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

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'. — Ma Rainey

Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer. — Margaret Brownley

It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead. — Jools Holland

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul. — Bessie Head

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