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Nina Simone and James Baldwin

Nina Simone (1933-2003) posed in London in June 1968.

photo: David Redfern/Redferns

Nina Simone, February 21, 1933 / 2022

(image: Nina Simone, Paris, 1969. Photo: © Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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Nina Simone (1933-2003) posed in London in June 1968.

photo: David Redfern/Redferns

Nina Simone and James Baldwin, early 1960s [«The New Yorker». Photo: New York Public Library, New York, NY]

“I made wine from the lilac tree, put my heart in its recipe, it makes me see what I want to see, and be what I want to be.”

Nina Simone, 1968.

nina simone | go to hell live at the village gate in NYC

Nina Simone eating breakfast at a Juan-Les-Pins hotel during the Jazz festival in the French southern Riviera town (1988).

Nina Simone and James Baldwin, early 1960s [«The New Yorker». Photo: New York Public Library, New York, NY]

— Nina Simone (via naturaekos)

Nina Simone.

Nina Simone by Michael Ochs, 1967

no offense but nina simone could consistently interpret a song that definitively belonged to other artists (”my way” - frank sinatra, “here comes the sun” - the beatles, “just like a woman” - bob dylan, etc) and produce something so fresh and groundbreaking that you would swear she wrote the song herself 

Nina Simone, ca. 1970 (Ken Harris)

Nina Simone at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969; Summer of Soul (2021) dir. by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson