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Nina Simone

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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich 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
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
It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Existence Kind Music Myself

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