Nina Simone Quotes

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

I just knew I was different from everyone else. I still feel like that today, sitting in rooms with people.

I guess I've lived my whole life as an outsider.

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

I've always been a misfit.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

I always felt like a misfit.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.

It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside.

I'm an outsider, I guess.

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

I've always felt like I'm from another planet.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.