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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
Dive
Umpires
Swim
Damn
Learned
Trying
Every
Scuba

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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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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.
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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.
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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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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
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Desegregation is a joke.
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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