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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.

Nina Simone

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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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
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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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself

I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.

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