It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONEI look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I 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.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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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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