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Nina Simone

"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."

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"First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain."

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"Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America."

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"In America everyone's fast."

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"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever."

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"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world."

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"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?"

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"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world."

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"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."
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"I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever."
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"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."
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"I'm a real rebel with a cause."
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"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going."
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"This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet."
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