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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

Nina Simone

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 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
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONE

Breathe Children Life Music Myself
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE

Excuse Hero Known People Young

You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

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