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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Nina Simone

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
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
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
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.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

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