It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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’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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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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