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People Quotes by Nina Simone
- I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
- I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
- 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…
- 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;…
- There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
- Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
- To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
- 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…
- 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…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle