Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Nineteen Men, Eighteen, Fools, No Doggone Good, Bessie Smith

“There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood:/Eighteen of them are fools/and the one ain't no doggone good.” - Bessie Smith. For the hard-living “Empress of the Blues,” man trouble was her bread and butter.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 183.

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