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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

Nina Simone

I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
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
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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
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
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
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
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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time

It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

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