Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONEBirds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONEMusic is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONEI look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONEWe 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 SIMONEFrom the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONEWhat is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONEI’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEI 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 SIMONEThere’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONESlavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONEI tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONEYou don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONEMusic is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONEHow can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONETo be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE