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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

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONE

Artist Reflection Time
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
NINA SIMONE

Mindset Music Myself Theory
Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONE

Different Feeling Person Time
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Serve Yourself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow 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
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONE

Children Gift Help People
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
NINA SIMONE

Ideas Myself Writing
You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
NINA SIMONE

Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
NINA SIMONE

Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Black Definition Myself People
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
NINA SIMONE

Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice

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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