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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.

Nina Simone

I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
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
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
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Music Myself People Play
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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
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.
NINA SIMONE

Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music Thinking Way
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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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking

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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