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Kiemelt értékelések
Nina Simone személyével először egy angol óra keretén belül találkoztam, azóta rendszeresen megfordulnak a dalai a lejátszási listáimon. Bevallom az életéről keveset tudok, a filmet nézve szembesültem vele, hogy Nina mennyire komplex és egyáltalán nem egyszerű személyiség volt, ebből a szempontból a film kendőzetlenül szembesít azzal, hogy Nina a magánéletében nem volt egy angyal, sokszor voltak erőszakos kirohanásai. Zenei szempontból azonban vitathatatlan, hogy egy igazi ikon, fantasztikus hanggal és elgondolkodtató szövegekkel.
Népszerű idézetek
I am just one of the people who is sick of the social order, sick of the establishment, sick to my soul of it all. To me, America’s society is nothing but a cancer, and it must be exposed before it can be cured. I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness.
I’ve always thought that I was shaking people up, but now I want to go at it more, and I want to go at it more deliberately, and I want to go at it coldly. I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I’ve performed, I just want them to be to pieces.
Lisa Simone: My mother said that after she sang that song, she got so angry that her voice broke…and from Mississippi Goddam" on, it never, ever returned to its former octave. But I think that Mom's anger is what sustained her. The energy and the creativity and the passion of those days is really what kept her going.
Nina, when it comes to the artists today, we find that more of the artists are attempting to alert America to the need for change. Is this really the artist's role?
Nina: Well, I think it's something that, um, I have chosen to do and I have felt compelled to do it. So it is my role…but sometimes I wish it wasn't. I think the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier, but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult.
