139 Quotes by Nina Simone

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

To be young, gifted and black!

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.