Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• Scholarship

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

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• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

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• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

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• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

  

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• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

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• When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

  

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• I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

  

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• Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

  

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• There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

  

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• There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

  

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• If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.

  

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• In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

  

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• The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  

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• I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

  

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• Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

  

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• Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.

  

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• I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Black
  • Racism
  • Realize