Nina Simone
American singer, songwriter and pianist
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
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- We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.
- As quoted in Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black, Rickey Vincent, ISBN 9781613744956