I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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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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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 was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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