Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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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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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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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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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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