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.
NINA SIMONEThere’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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