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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.

Nina Simone

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

Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Serve Yourself
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
NINA SIMONE

Failure Start Success Time Work
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
NINA SIMONE

Myself See Tree Wine
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONE

Human Mistake Myself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Abolish Slave Thinking Way
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
NINA SIMONE

Mindset Music Myself Theory
To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE

Black One Liner Young
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Black People Time
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
NINA SIMONE

Classics Love Master Myself
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself

It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.

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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.

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