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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.

Nina Simone

It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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 an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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
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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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.

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