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.
NINA SIMONENina Simone Quotes
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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