Tag: Nina Simone
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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
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Desegregation is a joke.
Nina Simone
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
Nina Simone
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
Nina Simone
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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.
Nina Simone
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
Nina Simone
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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.
Nina Simone
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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
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
Nina Simone