There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONEDesegregation is a joke.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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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 feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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