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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.

Nina Simone

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine
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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Music Myself People Play
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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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Existence Kind Music Myself
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory

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