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35 Best Nina Simone Quotes
1. “Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.” – Nina Simone
2. “Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.” – Nina Simone
3. “I wasn’t a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.” – Nina Simone
4. “Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.” – Nina Simone
5. “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.” – Nina Simone
6. “Greed has driven the world crazy.” – Nina Simone
7. “Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.” – Nina Simone
8. “You don’t have to live next to me. Just give me my equality.” – Nina Simone
9. “Desegregation is a joke.” – Nina Simone
10. “At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don’t think you can help but be involved.” – Nina Simone
11. “You get racism crossing the street; it’s in the very fabric of American society.” – Nina Simone
12. “This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.” – Nina Simone
13. “You use up everything you’ve got trying to give everybody what they want.” – Nina Simone
14. “I flirt all the time. I like men! I don’t think we can do without them.” – Nina Simone
15. “For my love is like the wind, and wild is the wind.” – Nina Simone
16. “You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.” – Nina Simone
17. “I drink much more that I ought to drink because it brings me back you.” – Nina Simone
18. “You don’t know what it’s like to love somebody the way I love you.” – Nina Simone
19. “What is love but a prelude to sorrow…with heartache ahead for your goal.” – Nina Simone
20. “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” – Nina Simone
21. “To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.” – Nina Simone
22. “I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.” – Nina Simone
23. “Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.” – Nina Simone
24. “There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were” – Nina Simone
25. “But oh, I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” – Nina Simone
26. “I’m a real rebel with a cause.” – Nina Simone
27. “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.” – Nina Simone
28. “It’s a good time for black people to be alive.” – Nina Simone
29. “I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.” – Nina Simone
30. “To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.” – Nina Simone
31. “It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live.” – Nina Simone
32. “I didn’t get interested in music. It was a gift from God.” – Nina Simone
33. “I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I’ve performed, I just want them to be to pieces.” – Nina Simone
34. “When I’m on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.” – Nina Simone
35. “Music is as close to God as I know.” – Nina Simone
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