I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
NINA SIMONE
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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 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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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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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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