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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

Nina Simone

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked 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
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
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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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
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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Myself See Tree Wine
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
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.
NINA SIMONE

Classics Love Master Myself
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
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

Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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
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’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

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