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.
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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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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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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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.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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.
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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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