It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONEMusic is the center of my life.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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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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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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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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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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