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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

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
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
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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’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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
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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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself

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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