Simone is our people’s Bach. She is the foundation for making popular music interesting and her activist side makes her a heroine to us. (x)——
She wanted success, was pressured to make hits, but her own sound was still irrepressible. She had things to say, she protested. She was a loud, proud Black, female voice during a time when Black female voices were not encouraged to make themselves heard. (x)
Meshell Ndegeocello
Nina Simone performing “Four Women” at the Harlem Cultural Festival, 1969. [x]
“I can’t tell you in words what I want, but I’m wise enough to know that life doesn’t give us the dreams, as we dream them. And so I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but all I know is that force that’s inside me is pushing me towards something.” - Nina Simone
Ain’t Got No, I Got Life - Nina Simone (x)
