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Many times I feel different like a different person.

Nina Simone

Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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 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
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
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
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
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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Existence Kind Music Myself

Many times I feel different like a different person.

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