You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good. — 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, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
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 Image
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
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 Image
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
