Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
NINA SIMONEI think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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