The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a good time for black people to be alive.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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