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.

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.

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

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.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

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

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

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

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.