Nina Simone Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicPeopleBlackWhitePlayJazz

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Joanna Garcia

WomenStrongCareerHealthyFact

If I did meet somebody, I would only ever make room for someone that loved me how I deserved to be loved. Until then... I've got my shoes, I've got my album, my dog.

Jessie J

DogShoesMeLovedSomeoneMeet

Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'

John Waters

BabyMomRememberTroubleCryWorst

I'm the absolute opposite of a hoarder.

Sonya Walger

OppositeAbsolute

Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.

Shonda Rhimes

PeopleControlOpinionChoicesThink

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

HistoryTimeEarlyHardProfession

People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

Mick Rock

BalancePeopleLookingThinkOkay

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Milan Kundera

GoodBadPlaceOrderActThings

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Louise Bourgeois

WorkI AmBloodRealI Was Raised

I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.

Jason Chaffetz

DiversityWinFindPartyArgument

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

HumanSomethingHuman BeingsStories

With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.

Chris Brown

GirlI AmSheOpenWhateverDate

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