I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONEYou’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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.
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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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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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