You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONETo be young, gifted and black!
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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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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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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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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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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