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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

Nina Simone

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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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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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Burden Myself Planet Talent
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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
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 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
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young

You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

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