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

Nina Simone

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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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
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
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
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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.
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Classics Love Master Myself
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
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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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
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

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

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