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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.

Nina Simone

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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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
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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Activity Life Myself Singer
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 a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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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Kind Love Myself Naked People
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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Failure Start Success Time Work
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
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
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
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
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
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
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.

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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.

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