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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.

Nina Simone

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.
NINA SIMONE

Address Job Myself Popular See Song
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONE

Important Music Myself Thinking
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
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
Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

Joke Segregation
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
NINA SIMONE

Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
NINA SIMONE

Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow Time
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.
NINA SIMONE

Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice

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