I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONEThe 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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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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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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