“Desegregation is a joke.” — Nina Simone Quote

“Desegregation is a joke.”

“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.”

“When I'm on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.”

“I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.”

“I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.”

“That L.A. traffic is no joke.”