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Nina Simone

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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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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Music Myself People Play
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
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
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song

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