Tag: Nina Simone
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone
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You get racism crossing the street; it’s in the very fabric of American society.
Nina Simone
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What I was interested in was conveying an emotional message, which means using everything you’ve got inside you sometimes to barely make a note, or if you have to strain to sing, you sing.
Nina Simone
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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
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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
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To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.
Nina Simone