I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONEThe worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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