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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.

Nina Simone

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
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
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
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
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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

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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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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