00:00Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Billie Holiday.
00:05Reporters keep asking me,
00:06Billie, why you do the things you do?
00:08This is what I tell them.
00:11We love you.
00:15The NAACP says Billie Holiday is the voice of our people.
00:22Which one of my songs is your favorite song?
00:24Strange Fruit.
00:25It's a song about important things, you know,
00:27things that are going on in the country.
00:31This holiday woman is causing a lot of people
00:33to think the wrong things.
00:34It's a starting gun for this so-called civil rights movement.
00:37Y'all got a plan?
00:38She's a drug addict.
00:39Exactly.
00:41I cut Strange Fruit.
00:42It's for your own good, okay?
00:44I'll say what I want.
00:50Get her off that stage.
00:54They won't let me sing no way.
00:56No clubs, no money, no nothing.
01:00She's singing it for all of us.
01:03Ain't no other Negro star bold enough to do it.
01:06She's made something of herself and you can't take it
01:09because she's strong, beautiful, and black.
01:15You think I'm gonna stop singing that song?
01:17You grandkids will be singing Strange Fruit.
01:24You grandkids will be singing Strange Fruit.
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