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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.

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
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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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
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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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing

Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.

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