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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

Nina Simone

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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
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.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
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
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
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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Failure Start Success Time Work
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation

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