Top 19 Quotes by Nina Simone

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

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

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.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Desegregation is a joke.