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To be young, gifted and black!

Nina Simone

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
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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Life Music Thinking Way
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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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
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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Activity Life Myself Singer
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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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
I 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.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way

To be young, gifted and black!

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