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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.

Nina Simone

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve 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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
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 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
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
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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 would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water

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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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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