“Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.”
"You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served."
- Nina Simone
Love
"You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served."
- Nina Simone
Love
"To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense."
- Nina Simone
Belief in Self
"As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American Blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world."
- Nina Simone
Empowerment
"It's a new dawn, It's a new day, It's a new life for me. And I'm feeling good."
- Nina Simone
New Beginnings
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy