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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.

Nina Simone

It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Black People Time
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONE

Different Feeling Person Time
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself 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.
NINA SIMONE

Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
NINA SIMONE

Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
NINA SIMONE

Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
NINA SIMONE

Home Name Sound Stage
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.
NINA SIMONE

Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONE

Art Music Rule
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
NINA SIMONE

Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
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.
NINA SIMONE

Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
NINA SIMONE

Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Play
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
NINA SIMONE

Artist Help Reflection Time

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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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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