I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONEI’m a real rebel with a cause.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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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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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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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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