“I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.” FeelsChanceAlive Author:Nina Simone
“I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.” ThinkingWorldFirstsHas BeensBlackSorryClassicI'm SorryPianist Author:Nina Simone
“The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.” PeopleKindEnoughMinesNakedShockedAllusion Author:Nina Simone
“It's a good time for black people to be alive.” PeopleBlackAliveGood TimesBlack People Author:Nina Simone
“I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.” WayHoursFiveStrangeMy WayStrange Places Author:Nina Simone
“When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.” PeopleGivingMotherPlease Author:Gene Wilder
“I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.” WantedActorsFeltActingStageComic Author:Gene Wilder
“I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.” IfsThinkingFeelsMotherSufferingEnjoyMy OwnSickEverydayMy Own Life Author:Gene Wilder
“Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.” IfsWellsTwoMomentsMovingFeltFictionNovelWrittenSmartPainfulMemoirAgentsFantasticThings To DoNot SureMiningPainful Moments Author:Janice Erlbaum
