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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Nina Simone

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
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
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
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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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
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
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
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself

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