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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
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.
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Myself See Tree Wine
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
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
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
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

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