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 SIMONE
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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