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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.

Nina Simone

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONE

Dreams Myself Show
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Black Definition Myself People
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE

Excuse Hero Known People Young
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Play
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONE

Human Mistake Myself
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Black People Time
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONE

Breathe Children Life Music Myself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

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.
NINA SIMONE

Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE

Black One Liner Young

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