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Desegregation is a joke.

Nina Simone

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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 know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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 drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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 don't like to go to strange places.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. So you're the honky, she said, who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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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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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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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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