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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Nina Simone

Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
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 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.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself 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.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
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 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 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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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
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

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