I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONEI think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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