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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

Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
NINA SIMONE

Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way

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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