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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good
Nina Simone
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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
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Jazz Pianist
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North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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