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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

Nina Simone

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
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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Kind Love Myself Naked People
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table 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.
NINA SIMONE

Existence Kind Music Myself
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
NINA SIMONE

Activity Life Myself Singer
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself
Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

Joke Segregation
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
NINA SIMONE

Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
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.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
NINA SIMONE

Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONE

Art Music Rule

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