Nina Simone Black Quotations

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

To be young, gifted and black!

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.