Nina Simone Quotes

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

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.