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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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
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Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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Tables
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Love
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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'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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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