Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
NINA SIMONE
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONE
This may be a dream, but I’ll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
NINA SIMONE
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
NINA SIMONE
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
NINA SIMONE
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
I flirt all the time. I like men! I don’t think we can do without them.
NINA SIMONE
I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
NINA SIMONE