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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.

Nina Simone

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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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
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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Music Myself

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