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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Nina Simone

It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
NINA SIMONE

Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember

I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

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