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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Nina Simone

I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
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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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
NINA SIMONE

Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
NINA SIMONE

Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
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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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
NINA SIMONE

Activity Life Myself Singer
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

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