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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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Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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 don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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