Nina Simone Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003

Topics

PeopleMeWorldAmericanPolitical

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Jim Rash

CommunityVisionBeginningThink

I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.

Jeremy Corbyn

ChangeOpinionAccountabilityThink

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

Melissa McCarthy

PeopleEndLaughEnoughUpPretend

The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.

Michael Gove

PeopleThank YouYouDoneOutWell

I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, 'Wow, I want to be like that.'

Michael Jai White

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Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

Amanda Seyfried

LifeLoveNew YorkSingingVoice

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

Amity Shlaes

HistoryNewOnlyMakeAgainTakes

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

Steve Winwood

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When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Tora Berger

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The emails and the tweets and the Facebook posts and the fan mail that we get from young people all over America that are on the football team or on the hockey team are so touching. They tell me, 'Hey, this is me. I still have to remain in the closet, but your role in '90210' makes me feel better the way being gay is being portrayed.'

Trevor Donovan

FootballPeopleMeTeamBetterFeel

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Tom Stoppard

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You have to stand on your own two feet.

Robert Blaha

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