American - Musician | February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003
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
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
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I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
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Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world.
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Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.
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It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.
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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.
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To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a real rebel with a cause.
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You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.
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