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Nina Simone

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
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
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
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 a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
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
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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

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