NINA SIMONE
Clip of a BBC interview in which Nina Simone discusses a number of interesting topics, including an altercation during which she pulled out a gun and shot at a man from her record company (but missed) because the company refused to pay her royalties.
Additionally, on the subject of men, she states:
“I would love to be married, you know. I think I’d marry the cameraman over there. I have a man of my own, but that’s second to my music. My music—nothing takes its place. Nothing.”
“I refuse to cook or to clean.”
“They’ve got to take me as I am and recognize that I’m a star as well as a woman and they have to deal with the two.”
Why. Is. She. So. Awesome?
“I sing from intelligence”
Yes. Yes you do.
(via bad-dominicana)
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