139 Quotes by Nina Simone

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.

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

I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.

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 came to expect despair every time I set foot in my own country, and I was never disappointed.

I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.