Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONESlavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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