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Nina Simone (b. Eunice Waymon) 2.21.33 Tryon, North Carolina / D. 4.21.03 Carry-le-Rouet, France Mood Indigo Nigger nine times in one conversational burst I counted last week sitting next to a young black guy on the Q train.
Nina Simone left the country in 1973, living in Liberia and Barbados before settling in France. In a 1998 interview, she said she had left the United States because of a racial situation she called �worse than ever.�
I said nigger out loud for the first time maybe two years ago it slipped out like my brain pan was Pandora�s box and my precious gray matter not at all not at all. Nigger wing�d like discord; like discord spread. Three, four months later my tongue found another one loitering under my palate.
When �ghetto� as if it were Sweet �n� Low fails to satisfy.
How many girlfriends used to say, as if only to bug me, �Not a criticism, just an observation�? At least one maybe two. Years ago. Nigger like I�m knowledgeable and it�s a distinction I�m making: them not the well-behaved them not you or yes you (loutish, NBA-branded) not me, the one with the mouth like a razor.
When France isn�t far enough.
Quotation from The New York Times Obituary (4.22.03)
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