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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

Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine

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