"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."

-- Nina Simone

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“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
“While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.”
“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”
“Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.”
“Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259”
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

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