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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

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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Failure Start Success Time Work
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
NINA SIMONE

Address Job Myself Popular See Song
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
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
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
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
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
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
NINA SIMONE

Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Classics Love Master Myself
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
NINA SIMONE

Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
NINA SIMONE

Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself

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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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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