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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

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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
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
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
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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

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.

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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.

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