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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

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
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 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.
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Life Music Thinking Way
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
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
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 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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
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
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
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
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice

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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