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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.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

Nina Simone

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Nina Simone

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Nina Simone

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.

Nina Simone

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Nina Simone

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.

Nina Simone

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Nina Simone

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

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

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

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Nina Simone

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.

Nina Simone

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 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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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.

Nina Simone

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'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!

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Desegregation is a joke.

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I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

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You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.

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As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world.

Nina Simone

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

Nina Simone