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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.

Nina Simone

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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
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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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
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
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
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table 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
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young

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