“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”
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American singer-songwriter and actor 1949Related quotes

“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”
"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)
“You gotta take your skin off, you gotta love so much that you go insane.”
Sammy.
Children at the Gate (1962)

As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192

“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
as "Jeff Christie" on a top-40 music program in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, quoted in * Mouth at Work
1990-10-08
Richard
Gehr
Newsday
Recalling a stint as an "insult-radio" DJ in Pittsburgh, he admits feeling guilty about, for example, telling a black listener he could not understand to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back."; also in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 49, 156584260X, 31782620, 15840895W], and Bone Voyage, Snopes.com, 2007-09-04 http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp,