Nina Simone Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

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

  Nina Simone

  Music, White, Racism

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Nina Simone

  Thinking, America, Racism

• From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

  Nina Simone

  Men, White, Racism

• 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.

  Nina Simone

  Philadelphia, Racism, Black

  "Nina Simone's Daughter Says This Film Gets Her Mom's Story Straight". Interview with Michel Martin, gpbnews.org. February 14, 2016.

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