Nina Simone Quotes

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

Good, Hurt, Angry

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

May, Put, Dream

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.
Nina Simone

Music, Freedom, Important

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Nina Simone

Young, Knowing, Heroes

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
Nina Simone

Music, Rap, Beat

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone

Music, Black, White

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
Nina Simone

Life, Music, Teacher

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Nina Simone

Thinking, America, Slavery

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone

Rich, Around, Situation

I'm a real rebel with a cause.
Nina Simone

Real, Cause, Rebel

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
Nina Simone

Music, Black, Become

Desegregation is a joke.
Nina Simone

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Nina Simone

Woman, Black, Beginning

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Nina Simone

Home, Crazy, Greed

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Nina Simone

Music, Important, America

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Nina Simone

Black, Die, Rich

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
Nina Simone

Try, Learned, Swim

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
Nina Simone

Love, Music, Him

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

Music, Black, Play

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Nationality: American

Born: February 21, 1933

Died: April 21, 2003

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