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 time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.Nina Simone
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
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I am particular about the seating of the audience-also about how much money they pay-but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to.
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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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