Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

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• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

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• I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.

  

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• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

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• I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

  

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• When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

  

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• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

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• I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.

  

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• One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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• In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

  

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• It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

  

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• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

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• Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

  

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• I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

  

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• I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

  

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• There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

  

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• I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

  

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• And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.

  

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• I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

  

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• In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

  

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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.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Play
  • Jazz
  • Classical Music