"I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to..." — Nina Simone

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

Desegregation is a joke.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.