It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONEMusic has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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 know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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