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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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Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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.
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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 can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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