I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. Nina Simone More Quotes by Nina Simone More Quotes From Nina Simone I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep Nina Simone hairmenbelieve 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 hurtselfthinking You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality. Nina Simone give-menextgiving To be young, gifted and black! Nina Simone giftedblackyoung I'm just human, I have faults like anyone Nina Simone faultshumans I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone. Nina Simone feelsfunpeople My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice. Nina Simone voiceexpressionplay It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it. Nina Simone communicationfeelingspeople Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. Nina Simone breathingmusicchildren It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best. Nina Simone musiccallinglooks Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment. Nina Simone vibrationswayworld I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be Nina Simone winehearttree Desegregation is a joke. Nina Simone jokesbrotherhood I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer. Nina Simone musicrightspeople 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. Nina Simone kissingdreamyears What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. Nina Simone heartachegoallove Many times I feel different like a different person. Nina Simone differentpersonsfeels I'm a real rebel with a cause. Nina Simone rebeluprisingreal 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 memoriesbelieveblood Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. Nina Simone funkslaverysorrow
