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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.

Nina Simone

Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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
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
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
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
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time

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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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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