Name	Ruth Brown
Age	81
Build	Large
Eye Color	Brown - Dark
Hair Color	Black
Date of Birth	January 30, 1928
Birthplace	Portsmouth, Virginia
Star Sign	Aquarius
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Black
Occupation	Actress
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There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stuff.

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There are stories that people don`t want to talk about that brought this music through.

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A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

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We have paid a price to sing this music.

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In those days, as I always tell B.B and Buddy Guy and these guys and gave them a place to cry like a man without having to do it.

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There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

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I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

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When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

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But of course it`s different now, the blues is no longer blues, it`s green now.

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Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

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When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

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I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

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