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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

Nina Simone

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
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
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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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.
NINA SIMONE

Description Invention Music Myself Play 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
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONE

Dreams Myself Show

I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

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