Nina Simone Quotes :
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
Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.
NINA SIMONE
I’m not a blues singer, I’m a diva.
NINA SIMONE
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
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONE
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONE
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE
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
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
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
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
NINA SIMONE
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE