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

Nina Simone

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

Nina Simone

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

Nina Simone

Tags: art

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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

Tags: 20th-century-jazz-artist

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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Nina Simone

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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.

Nina Simone

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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

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

Nina Simone

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

Nina Simone

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

Nina Simone

Tags: love

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