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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

Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
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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Burden Myself Planet Talent
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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
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
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
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

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