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To be young, gifted and black!

Nina Simone

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
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
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Myself Planet Talent
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
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.
NINA SIMONE

Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music Thinking Way
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONE

Different Myself Thinking
To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE

Black One Liner Young

To be young, gifted and black!

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