Quotes / Nina Simone

• "You've got to learn to leave the table, when love's no longer being served"
• "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.”
• “There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were”
• “To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.”
• “I came to expect despair every time I set foot in my own country, and I was never disappointed.”