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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.

Nina Simone

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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
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
You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
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
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself

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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