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

  - Nina Simone
  

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

  - Nina Simone
  

• ‟ When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

  - Nina Simone
  

• ‟ I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces.

  - Nina Simone
  

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

  - Nina Simone