Top 19 Quotes by Nina Simone

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

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.

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.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

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

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