This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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