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Nina Simone
Nina Simone
American Musician
Born: Feb 21, 1933
Died: Apr 21, 2003
Black Me Music People Think You
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. Nina Simone
Good Angry You Hurt Rest Not Good Enough Thinking Enough Worst Worst Thing Kind About Feeds Feel Perhaps Self-Doubt Am While Prejudice Thing Start
I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear! Nina Simone
Freedom Me You Fear No Fear Tell Mean Really
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. Nina Simone
Thinking Way Abolish Never Been America Slavery
It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live. Nina Simone
Reflect Duty Live Times Artist Which
At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved. Nina Simone
Time Day You Survival Every Day Matter Desperate Every Think Our Everything Our Lives Crucial Involved Help Lives
Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world. Nina Simone
Me You World Black Black And White Pure White Live Other Worlds Keys Only Voice Both Both Worlds Piano Between Like Know Sing Instrument Did Any Human Being In-Between Them Notes White World Found Human Voice
To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense. Nina Simone
Beautiful Me People World Most Beautiful Black Sense Every Most Mean Whole Creatures
I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces. Nina Simone
People Bad Shake Performed Pieces Leave Up Just Where Want Them Nightclub
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. Nina Simone
Home Crazy World Greed Think Driven Over Call Place Lucky Here
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. Nina Simone
People Heroes Young Not Knowing Heroines No Excuse Excuse Knowing Were Young People Who
I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva. Nina Simone
Diva Singer Blues
You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society. Nina Simone
You Racism Society Fabric Crossing Very Get American American Society Street
I'm a real rebel with a cause. Nina Simone
Cause Real Rebel
I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult. Nina Simone
You Preaching Live Difficult Think Nina See Involved Messages Very Get Artists Happier Who
I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them. Nina Simone
Time Men Think Like Without Them Flirt
I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you. Nina Simone
Teacher Me You Remember First Composed Touch Piano Poised Until Ready Listen
As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world. Nina Simone
Me Rights People World Political Has-Been Weapon Blacks Songs Over Make Protest Around Audience Been Years American Done Move Them Helped Conscious Defend
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. Nina Simone
Music People Black White Jazz Classical Classical Music Dirt Most Means Play
This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. Nina Simone
Kiss Year Walks Meet Say Married Dream Nelson Nelson Mandela Shall He Put Bought Feet Supposed His Gown Train May Mandela Anyway Aside Then Ground Last Last Year
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. Nina Simone
People Black Rich Think Too Rise Most Die Going Them Poor
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. Nina Simone
Politics Music Me Generation Imitators Over Like Talents Dead Protest Greatest Were Exile Years Just Place Many Whole Filled
When I'm on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should. Nina Simone
Honor Stage Assume Should Compensation
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. Nina Simone
Music Important Think Would Would-Be More Over Protest Were America Going
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. Nina Simone
Life Teacher Music Me World Made My Life Bach Once Introduced Pianist Concert Concert Pianist Understood His Wanted Dedicate Who

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