"You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served"."
"How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it"
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Source: Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary (1993). “I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone”, New York : Da Capo Press
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