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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.

Nina Simone

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
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
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’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
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

We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.

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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.

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