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To be young, gifted and black!

Nina Simone

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
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
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
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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing

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