black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Nina Simone

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONE

Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE

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.
NINA SIMONE

Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself
Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONE

Different Feeling Person Time
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Black Definition Myself People
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
NINA SIMONE

Beginning Black Woman
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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.
NINA SIMONE

Myself See Tree Wine
To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE

Black One Liner Young

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Nina Simone Quotes