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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Nina Simone

Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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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Failure Start Success Time Work
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
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
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

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