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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Nina Simone

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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Failure Start Success Time Work
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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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Existence Kind Music Myself
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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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
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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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
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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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show

You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

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