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

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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
Composer
Jazz Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
Every
Scuba
Dive
Umpires
Swim
Damn
Learned
Trying

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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep
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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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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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