Nina Simone Quotes

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?

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 going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good

It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

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 of people who are unable to express it

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.

To be young, gifted and black!

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

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.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep