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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

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
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
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
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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time

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