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Music is an art and art has its own rules.

Nina Simone

I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
NINA SIMONE

Beginning Black Woman
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
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
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 is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
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
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study

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