When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONEYou don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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The 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.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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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 would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Music is the center of my life.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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