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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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" 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

People

World

American

" When I'm on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should. "

" What I was interested in was conveying an emotional message, which means using everything you've got inside you sometimes to barely make a note, or if you have to strain to sing, you sing. "

" My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her. "

" It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live. "

" I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult. "

" I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. "

" To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense. "

Nina Simone

World

People

" Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. "

" I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. "

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

" I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you. "

Nina Simone

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You

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream. "

" 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. "

" I'm a real rebel with a cause. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God. "

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