Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it,… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have.… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow… — Nina Simone Copy Share
I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa. — Nina Simone Copy Share
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with… — Nina Simone Copy Share
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. — Nina Simone Copy Share
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United… — Nina Simone Copy Share
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. — Nina Simone Copy Share
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… — Nina Simone Copy Share
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist. — Nina Simone Copy Share
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky,"… — Nina Simone Copy Share
