I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONESince I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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