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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.

Nina Simone

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
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
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
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
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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Existence Kind Music Myself
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.

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