Enough Quote by Nikki Giovanni

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate…

— Nikki Giovanni

I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made…

— India Arie

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

— Michel Martin

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money…

— Nia Long

Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a…

— Michel Martin

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that…

— India Arie

I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot…

— Nikki Giovanni

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

— Dianne Reeves

That girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around.

— Joan Rivers

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She…

— Nikki Giovanni

“She needed friends, and a life, and this is how you acquired those things: by talking to strangers. Everyone was a stranger, all on…

— Chris Pavone

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a…

— Louis Bromfield