Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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.
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The 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.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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