Nina Simone

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

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

“Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is equality /For my sister, my brother, my people, and me Mississippi Goddam 1964”

“Hound dogs on my trail/School children sitting in jail/Black cat cross my path/I think every day's gonna be my last/Don't tell me, I'll tell you/Me and my people just about due/I've been there so I know/They keep on saying "Go slow!" Mississippi Goddam 1964”

“I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart/Remove all the bars that keep us apart/I wish you could know what it means to be me/Then you'd see and agree/That everyone should be free/But, oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good/Oh, Lord, please, don't let me be misunderstood I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”

“Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky/How sweet it would be/If I found I could fly/I'd soar to the sun/And look down at the sea/And I sing 'cause I know/How it feels to be free I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”

“the world is big/Big and bright and round/And it's full of folks like me/Who are black, yellow, beige and brown Backlash Blues 1967”

“Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You raise my taxes, freeze my wages/And send my son to Vietnam /You give me second class houses/And second class schools/Do you think that all colored folks/Are just second class fools? Nina Simone , Backlash Blues 1967”

“When the poets rhyme in the summertime/You'll hear melodies in the words Nina Simone , Music for Lovers 1978”

“We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx , Lenin and revolution”