139 Quotes by Nina Simone

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

Sometimes I sound like gravel and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

Cause your mama’s name was lonely, and your daddy’s name was pain. And they called you little sorrow, cus you’ll never love again. You ain’t got no one to hold you. You ain’t got no one to care. if you’d only understand it. nobody wants you anywhere.

I’m a real rebel with a cause.

Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.