It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONEMy name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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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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