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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

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONE

Children Gift Help People
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
NINA SIMONE

Existence Kind Music Myself
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
NINA SIMONE

Myself Place Strange Time Travel
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow Time
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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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONE

Culture Myself Speak
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
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
NINA SIMONE

Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
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 SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
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.
NINA SIMONE

Address Job Myself Popular See Song
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONE

Dreams Myself Show

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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