Top 15 Nina Simone Quotes

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

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

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

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'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

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

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

I am just one of the people who is sick of the social order, sick of the establishment, sick to my soul of it all. To me, America’s society is nothing but a cancer, and it must be exposed before it can be cured. I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.

I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

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

Having as little to do with human beings as possible - in some weird way, I'm at peace.

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

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