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1 " You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. "
― Nina Simone
2 " 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. "
3 " Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. "
4 " It is an artist's duty to reflect the times. "
5 " You've got to learn to leave the tableWhen love's no longer being served". "
6 " What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. "
― Nina Simone , I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
7 " 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. "
8 " I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear. "
9 " It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk. "
10 " There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were "
11 " This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it. "
12 " I am just one of the people who is sick of the social order, sick of the establishment, sick to my soul of it all. To me, America’s society is nothing but a cancer, and it must be exposed before it can be cured. I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness. "
13 " You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served. "
14 " You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality. "
15 " To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. "
16 " Having as little to do with human beings as possible - in some weird way, I'm at peace. "
17 " I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why. "
18 " Sometimes I sound like gravel and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream. "
19 " Cause your mama's name was lonely, and your daddy's name was pain. And they called you little sorrow, cus you'll never love again. You ain't got no one to hold you. You ain't got no one to care. if you'd only understand it. nobody wants you anywhere. "
20 " I came to expect despair every time I set foot in my own country, and I was never disappointed. "
