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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Nina Simone

It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONE

Important Music Myself Thinking
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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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
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
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself People Play
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
NINA SIMONE

Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
NINA SIMONE

Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONE

Children Gift Help People
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Myself Planet Talent
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Serve Yourself
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

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