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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

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
Freedom
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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'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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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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