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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Nina Simone

Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
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.
NINA SIMONE

Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
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
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time

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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