Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONETo most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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