Nina Simone Quotes

When I was studying… there weren’t any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

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

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

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.