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Desegregation is a joke.

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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
Brotherhood
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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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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
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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 believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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 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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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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