To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONEI’m a real rebel with a cause.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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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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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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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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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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