"Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was."

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Nina Simone

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“I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.”
“Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.”
“In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.”
“I was never crippled until I lost hope.”
“The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.”
“It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.”

Source : "Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust". Book by Eve Bunting, www.theguardian.com. 1980.
“Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.”
“At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.”

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