I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am. Nina Simone More Quotes by Nina Simone More Quotes From Nina Simone I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. Nina Simone no-fearfreedom You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". Nina Simone heart-breakheartbreaktables What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. Nina Simone saneknowingtogether You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. Nina Simone dutyartisthelping Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel. Nina Simone how-you-feellife-is-shortpeople Birds flying high you know how I feel Nina Simone flying-highskyinspirational You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served. Nina Simone get-uptableslove-is Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know? Nina Simone cuttingsongmean My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind. Nina Simone blowheartromantic Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you. Nina Simone jazzmusicjoy How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it Nina Simone musicheartpeople Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you. Nina Simone attentionworldart It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good. Nina Simone feel-goodfeelingsnew-day There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. Nina Simone knowingheropeople This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it. Nina Simone madeworld I know I'm different, but I don't think about it. Nina Simone differentknowsthinking We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America. Nina Simone longamericaway I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed. Nina Simone alivechancefeels Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. Nina Simone racismamericathinking Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. Nina Simone musicwaythinking
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