Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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A. Philip Randolph
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
Wayne Grady
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LaMarr Woodley
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Dayo Okeniyi
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Krysten Ritter
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James Coulter
I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.
Jill Dando
I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
