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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.

Nina Simone

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONE

Important Music Myself Thinking
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.
NINA SIMONE

Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Music Myself People Play
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation

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