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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.

Nina Simone

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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Classics Love Master Myself
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Existence Kind Music Myself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.

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