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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Nina Simone

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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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.
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Myself See Tree Wine
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
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
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.
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Classics Love Master Myself
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 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 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 know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule

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