139 Quotes by Nina Simone

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.

It is a fact that I don’t get enough love, I never did get enough love,

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 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.

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

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