Nina Simone Quotes

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. 
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. 
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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 think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die. 
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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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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. 
Nina Simone 

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. 
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. 
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. 
Nina Simone